Translating Maternal Violence
Autor: | Alessandro Castellini |
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EAN: | 9781137538826 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 28.02.2017 |
Untertitel: | The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan |
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Schlagworte: | Feminism Gender Infanticide Language Media Takahashi Takako Translation Women's liberation |
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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.