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Translating Maternal Violence
Title statement Translating Maternal Violence [electronic resource] : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan / by Alessandro Castellini. Publication London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Phys.des. XI, 273 p. 3 illus. online resource. ISBN 9781137538826 Edition Thinking Gender in Transnational Times Contents 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. . Notes to Availability Přístup pouze pro oprávněné uživatele Another responsib. SpringerLink (Online service) Subj. Headings Social sciences. * Ethnology - Asia. * Literature - Translations. * Oriental literature. * Feminist theory. * Crime - Sociological aspects. * Sociology. * Sex (Psychology). * Gender expression. * Gender identity. Form, Genre elektronické knihy electronic books Country Velká Británie Language angličtina Document kind Electronic books URL Plný text pro studenty a zaměstnance UPOL book
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.
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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