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Translating maternal violence = the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Translating maternal violence/ by Alessandro Castellini.
Reminder of title:	the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan /
Author:	Castellini, Alessandro.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2017.,
Description:	xi, 273 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Filicide - Japan. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6
ISBN:	9781137538826

Translating maternal violence = the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan /
Castellini, Alessandro.

Translating maternal violencethe discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan /[electronic resource] :by Alessandro Castellini. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2017. - xi, 273 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Thinking gender in transnational times. - Thinking gender in transnational times..

Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Filicide in the media: news coverage of mothers who kill in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 2. The Women's Liberation Movement in 1970s Japan -- Chapter 3. Contested meanings: mothers who kill and the rhetoric of uman ribu -- Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako's early fiction -- Conclusion.

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.

ISBN: 9781137538826

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1251869
Filicide
--Japan.

LC Class. No.: HV6542

Dewey Class. No.: 364.1523

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