The purpose of this paper is to clarify how the idea of a child's gender among the middle class has changed by analyzing "Eisaishinshi", a contribution magazine for children during the Meiji Era whose publication started before the practice of gen...
This paper aims to clarify the image of the girl among the new urban middle class, which had a great influence in society, using analysis of the image of girls that appeared in mass-consumption culture, and especially which arose in the girl's mag...
This paper attempts to clarify how the "modern girl" became an ideology, to explain the actual conditions under which it became an ideology and to investigate what kind of changes followed. The popular magazine Shojo-no-Tomo is analyzed from two d...