TY - BOOK AU - Castellini,Alessandro ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan T2 - Thinking Gender in Transnational Times SN - 9781137538826 AV - HM401-1281 U1 - 305.3 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Sociology KW - Crime—Sociological aspects KW - Feminist theory KW - Ethnology—Asia KW - Literature—Translations KW - Oriental literature KW - Gender Studies KW - Crime and Society KW - Feminism KW - Asian Culture KW - Translation Studies KW - Asian Literature N1 - 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.; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6 ER -