Translation and Gender

Luise Von Flotow

1. Historical Background

The Women's Movement and the Idea of Gender
Women and Language
Gender and Translation

2. Gender and the Practice of Translation

Experimental Feminist Writing and its Translation
Translating the Body
Translating Puns of Cultural References
Translating Experiments with Language
Interventionist Feminist Translation
Translating Machismo
Assertive Feminist Translation
Recovering Women's Works 'Lost' in Patriarchy
Further Corrective Measures

3. Revising Theories and Myths

Proliferating Prefaces: The Translator's Sense of Self
Asserting the Translator's Identity
Claiming Responsibility for 'Meaning'
Revising the Rhetoric of Translation
Tropes
Achieving Political Visibility
Revising a Fundamental Myth
Pandora's Cornucopia

4. Reading and Rewriting Translations

Reading Existing Translations
Simone de Beauvoir
Rewriting Existing Translations
The Bible
Comparing 'Pre-feminist' and 'Post-feminist Translations
Sappho and Louise Labé
Recovering 'Lost' Women Translators
Subversive Activity in the English Renaissance
Nineteenth-Century Women Translators
La Malinche

5. Criticisms

Criticism from Outside Feminisms
Criticism from Within Feminisms
Elitist Experimentation
Opportunist Feminist Bandwagon
'Being Democratic with Minorities'
Revealing Women's Cultural and Political Diversity

6. Future Perspectives

Broad Historical Perspectives
Contemporary Perspectives
Public Language Policies
Interpreting

7. Concluding Remarks