Gender in Translation : Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission

Simon, Sherry

ISBN 10: 0415115353 / ISBN 13: 9780415115353

Published by Routledge, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gender in Translation : Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415115353
• ISBN 13: 9780415115353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Gender in Translation is a broad-ranging, imaginative and lively look at feminist issues surrounding translation studies. Students and teachers of translation studies, linguistics, gender studies and women's studies will find this unprecedented work invaluable and thought-provoking reading.
Sherry Simon argues that translation of feminist texts - with a view to promoting feminist perspectives - is a cultural intervention, seeking to create new cultural meanings and bring about social change. She takes a close look at specific issues which include: the history of feminist theories of language and translation studies; linguistic issues, including a critical examination of the work of Luce Irigaray; a look at women translators through history, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century; feminist translations of the Bible; an analysis of the ways in which French feminist texts such as De Beauvoir's The Second Sex have been translated into English.

About the Author

Sherry Simon