Castellini, Alessandro. Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan / [electronic resource] : / by Alessandro Castellini.. — 1st ed. 2017.. — XI, 273 p. 3 illus. : online resource. — (Thinking Gender in Transnational Times). - Thinking Gender in Transnational Times .
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. .
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Анотація: 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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10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6 doi
Sociology. Crime—Sociological aspects. Feminist theory. Ethnology—Asia. Literature—Translations. Oriental literature. Gender Studies. Crime and Society. Feminism. Asian Culture. Translation Studies. Asian Literature.