“Starting in the late seventeenth century, Korean women’s identities became defined through the familial and domestic roles they performed in their husbands’ households…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Ksenia Chizhova.

For further reading:
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday by Ksenia Chizhova (Columbia University Press, 2021)