Translating maternal violence : the discursive construction of maternal filicide in 1970s Japan / Alessandro Castellini.
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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Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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| Series: | Thinking gender in transnational times.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 ūman ribu
- Chapter 4. Filicide and maternal animosity in Takahashi Takako's early fiction
- Conclusion.