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Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan
Alessandra Castellini
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Description for Translating Maternal Violence: The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan
hardcover. Series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Num Pages: 273 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; JFFE1; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 503.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Series
Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137538819
SKU
V9781137538819
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About Alessandra Castellini
Alessandro Castellini is LSE Fellow in Transnational Gender Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
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