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Translating Maternal Violence
Alessandro Castellini
其他書名
The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan
出版Springer, 2017-02-28
主題Social Science / Gender StudiesSocial Science / CriminologySocial Science / Feminism & Feminist TheorySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian StudiesLiterary Criticism / Comparative LiteratureLiterary Criticism / Asian / GeneralSocial Science / Women's StudiesSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN11375388219781137538826
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Nps7DgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.