@article{779817,
      recid = {779817},
      author = {Castellini, Alessandro,},
      title = {Translating maternal violence : the discursive  construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/779817},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6},
}