Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan Hardback
by Alessandro Castellini
Part of the Thinking Gender in Transnational Times series
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This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan.
It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour.
Drawing on a wide range of original archival materials, it explores three discursive sites where the image of the murderous mother assumed a distinctive visibility: media coverage of cases of maternal filicide; the rhetoric of a newly emerging women’s liberation movement known as uman ribu; and fictional works by the Japanese writer Takahashi Takako.
Using translation as a theoretical tool to decentre the West as the origin of (feminist) theorizations of the maternal, it enables a transnational dialogue for imagining mothers' potential for violence.
This thought-provoking work will appeal to scholars of feminist theory, cultural studies and Japanese studies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:273 pages, 3 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 273 p. 3 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:07/03/2017
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- ISBN:9781137538819
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:273 pages, 3 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 273 p. 3 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:07/03/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137538819
