‘The joy of reading books’ was forbidden to women… The history of female readers who read persistently [flat]

Reading Women's History Written by Choi Hyun-mi Across | Page 352 | 19,800 won Illustration of a woman reading a book drawn in 1892. Image Cut In contrast to the recent landscape where female readers are active at the center of the text hip, ‘women who read books’ have been considered negative for a long time. This was due to the fear that if women learned to read, they would neglect housework or disrupt social order. <Reading Women’s History>