Gender in Translation (Translation Studies) - Hardcover

Simon, Sherry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415115353 ISBN 13: 9780415115353

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

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 this title

About the Author:

Sherry Simon is Director of the Humanities Doctoral Program at Concordia University in Montreal, and editor of Culture in Transit and Mapping Literature.

Review:

'An important milestone not just for those interested in the connections between translation and feminism, but for all of us fighting for a more symmetrical relationship between 'originals' and translations.' - Translation and Literature

'This is a very fine book indeed . . . written in a lucid and smooth style.' - Translation

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415115353
• ISBN 13: 9780415115353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 206