New Perspectives on Gender and Translation

This collection expands the body of research on the intersection of gender and translation to highlight perspectives across different countries in Europe, showcasing developments in the field from its origins in the emergence of feminist translation in Quebec over the last thirty years.

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Eleonora Federici is Associate Professor of English and Translation Studies at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

José Santaemilia is a legal and literary translator and Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Valencia, Spain.

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Contents

List of contributors

Introduction

A European Gender and Translation Geography: A Diversity of Voices for Transnational Dialogues

Eleonora Federici and José Santaemilia

1 Gender and Translation in/from Europe: Reviewing the Translation and Feminism Interface

José Santaemilia

2 Three Generations of British Women Translators: Sarah Austin's Legacy in the Long Nineteenth Century

Claudia Capancioni

3 Multilingualism and Women Translators in the Mediterranean Island of Malta

Clare Vassallo

4 Polish Women Translators in the 20th Century

Ewa Rajewska

5 There is Only One Way in Serbia: The Reception of Gender Equality in Serbian Translation

Sonja uri

6 Reclaiming Ancestry/Resisting Amnesia: Finding the 'Other' Half in Portuguese-American Women Writers

Maria Amélia Ribeiro de Carvalho

7 'The Personal is Political': Radical Feminism and Translation in the Post-Franco Era

Pilar Godayol

8 Feminisms Across the Ocean: Translating Theories and Practices

Eleonora Federici

9 (Un)Successful Feminisms? Mapping Chick Lit Fiction in Europe

Vanessa Leonardi

10 Marie Darrieussecq Translator; or How to Write French from a Female Body

Pascale Sardin

Index