The moral and the material : the family reformer and the promotion of a middle class -- The public professional and the middle class : the scientific expert's quest for social influence -- The wise mother and the little citizen : building a middle class -- The self-made woman and the superior student : transgressive femininity, educational achievement and meritocratic modernity -- The childlike child : play and the importance of leisure -- Epilogue
Summary
Mark Jones examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children