Feminist Translation Studies

Olga Castro is the Head of Translation Studies at Aston University, Birmingham. She co-authored the monograph Feminismos (2013) with María Reimóndez, guest-edited a special issue about feminism and translation in the journal Gender and Language (2013) and also another special issue of the journal Abriu: Textuality Studies on Brazil, Galicia and Portugal together with María Liñeira (2015). Her research primarily explores the social and political role of translation in the construction of gender and cultural/national identities in a transnational world, with a particular focus on the non-hegemonic cultural/linguistic contexts of Spain. Emek Ergun is an activist-translator and Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned her interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research focuses on the geo/political role of translation in connecting feminist activists and movements across borders. She is currently working on her first monograph exploring the ways in which the debiologizing virginity theories of a US-American book on the history of western virginities traveled to Turkey through her politically engaged translation.

Preface: On Translation and Intellectual Activism

Patricia Hill Collins

Introduction: Re-Envisioning Feminist Translation Studies: Feminisms in Translation, Translations in Feminism

Olga Castro & Emek Ergun

Section I: Feminist Translation in Theory

1. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Terminology in Gender and Translation Research: The Case of Feminist Translation

José Santaemilia

2. Transnational Feminist Solidarities and the Ethics of Translation

Damien Tissot

3. We Need to Talk... to Each Other: On Polyphony, Postcolonial Feminism and Translation

María Reimóndez

4. Translation and the Circuits of Globalization: In Search of More Fruitful Feminist Dialogues in Contemporary Spain

Lola Sanchez

5. A Manifesto for Postcolonial Queer Translation Studies

Rahul K. Gairola

6. Gender Travelling across France, Germany and the US: The Feminist Gender Debates as Cultural Translations

Cornelia Möser

7. Pedagogies of Feminist Translation: Rethinking Difference and Commonality across Borders

Emek Ergun & Olga Castro

Section II: Feminist Translation in Transition

8. A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable on the Feminist Politics of Translation

edited by Emek Ergun and Olga Castro

a. Richa Nagar

b. Kathy Davis

c. Judith Butler

d. AnaLouise Keating

e. Claudia De Lima Costa

f. Sonia E. Alvarez

g. Ayşe Gül Altınay

Section III: Feminist Translation in Action

9. The Other Women’s Lives: Translation Strategies in the Global Feminisms Project

Justine M. Pas & Magdalena J. Zaborowska

10. En-gendering Translation as a Political Project: The Subversive Power of Joyce Lussu’s Activist Translation(s)

Annarita Taronna

11. Donne è bello and the Role of Translation in the Migration of "Consciousness Raising" from the US to Italy

Elena Basilio

12. Rote Zora in Spanish: Anarcha-Feminist Activism in Translation

Sergi Mainer

13. Feminist Paratranslation as Literary Activism: Iraqi Writer-Activist Haifa Zangana in the Post-2003 US

Ruth Abou Rached

14. "Slut" in Translation: The SlutWalk Movement from Canada to Morocco

Rebecca Robinson

15. The Translator and the Transgressive: Encountering Sexual Alterity in Catherine Millet’s La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M.

Pauline Henry-Tierney

16. Displacing LGBT: Global Englishes, Activism and Translated Sexualities

Serena Bassi