Translating Maternal Violence - The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Alessandro Castellini
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	273
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-53881-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Child abuse
LSN:	1-137-53881-3
Barcode:	9781137538819

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