Translating Maternal Violence : The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan

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 vi...

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Main Author Castellini, Alessandro (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
SeriesThinking Gender in Transnational Times
Subjects
Takahashi, Takako > 1932-2013
násilí na dětech > 1971-1980 > Japonsko
kriminalita > sociologické aspekty > 1971-1980 > Japonsko
mateřství > dějiny > 20. století > Japonsko
kulturální studia
feminismus
japonská literatura
child abuse > 1971-1980 > Japan
crime > sociological aspects > 1971-1980 > Japan
motherhood > history > 20th century > Japan
cultural studies
feminism
Japanese literature
elektronické knihy
monografie
electronic books
monographs
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Summary: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.- Resumé vydavatel
Physical Description:XI, 273 p. 3 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9781137538826
DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6
Access:Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty

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