Overview
- Exposes the cultural alterity inherent to different understandings of women who kill their children
- Challenges the all-too-familiar dichotomy drawn between ‘the West' and 'the Rest of the World’
- Goes beyond gender and motherhood studies to examine the fraught relationship between cultural and area studies
Part of the book series: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times (THINKGEN)
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“Translating Maternal Violence is an examination of maternal filicide in Japan in the 1970s, which opens up fascinating new perspectives on feminism, maternity, mental health, sexual violence.”(Imogen Tyler, Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University)
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Book Title: Translating Maternal Violence
Book Subtitle: The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan
Authors: Alessandro Castellini
Series Title: Thinking Gender in Transnational Times
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53882-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53881-9Published: 07 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71161-1Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53882-6Published: 28 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-4361
Series E-ISSN: 2947-437X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 273
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Crime and Society, Feminism, Asian Culture, Translation Studies, Asian Literature