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| 說明 | 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, digital ; 24 cm |
| 文字 | text |
| 無媒介 | computer |
| 成冊 | online resource |
| 說明 | text file PDF |
| 系列 | Thinking gender in transnational times |
| Thinking gender in transnational times |
| 附註 | 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 uman ribu -- Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako's early fiction -- Conclusion |
| 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 |
| 主題 | Filicide -- Japan |
| Social Sciences |
| Gender Studies |
| Crime and Society |
| Feminism |
| Asian Culture |
| Translation Studies |
| Asian Literature |
| ISBN/ISSN | 9781137538826 (electronic bk.) |
| 9781137538819 (paper) |
| 10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6 |
