Translating maternal violence : the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan / Alessandro Castellini.
2017
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Title
Translating maternal violence : the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan / Alessandro Castellini.
ISBN
9781137538826 (electronic book)
1137538821 (electronic book)
9781137538819
1137538813
1137538821 (electronic book)
9781137538819
1137538813
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6 doi
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HV6542
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.1523
Summary
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 ūman 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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Series
Thinking gender in transnational times.
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Table of Contents
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 ūman ribu
Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako’s early fiction
Conclusion. .
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 ūman ribu
Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako’s early fiction
Conclusion. .