Abstract

MOREIRA DUMONT, Lígia Maria  and  SANTO, Patrícia Espírito. Feminine reading: motivation, context and knowledge. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2007, vol.10, pp. 28-37. ISSN 1806-5821.

Abstract The present work analyses the education and development of female readers, from the XIX century, on a period in which features a great worry of the patriarchal society towards what women should read and towards the most appropriate content in order to guide both the reading act, as well as the subject-woman. The social scenery interferes in their "preference" for a certain kind of reading thus attracting them to novels which reproduced patriarchal values. However, the fact that reading triggers out cognitive processes such as thinking, imagining, remembering and problem solving has stopped both feminine thinking as well as feminine behavior from being "tamed" through literature. The contact with reading and schooling has helped open up new opportunities for women to have access to public life besides unveiling the field of knowledge of new and different realities, including their own hitherto only partially viewed through a private and particular angle. © Ciências & Cognição 2007; Vol. 10: 28-37.

Keywords : reading; cognition; feminine reading; XIX Century; reading; meaning; context; motivation.

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