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

9781137538826 (electronic book)
1137538821 (electronic book)
9781137538819
1137538813

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

©2017

English

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10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6 doi

HV6542

364.1523

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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Thinking gender in transnational times.

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