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.
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