Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Construction of Maternal

Description: 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. Alessandro Castellini is LSE Fellow in Transnational Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

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EAN: 9781137538819

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Book Title: Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Cons

Item Length: 21 cm

Number of Pages: 273 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Translating Maternal Violence: the Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Year: 2017

Subject: Zoology, Criminology

Item Height: 210 mm

Item Weight: 4753 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Alessandro Castellini

Subject Area: Gender Issues

Item Width: 148 mm

Format: Hardcover