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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. Building off seminal work on feminist
translation by scholars in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s, the book
explores the evolution of the discipline in shifting translation
practices and research across a range of European countries, with a
focus on underrepresented areas such as Malta, Serbia, and Poland.
The different chapters examine key developments such as the
critical reframing of gender and identity, the viewing of
historical translation activity by women through the lens of
ideological and political motivations, and the analysis of
socio-political contexts where feminist or gender-inspired
translation has impacted translators' practices. The volume looks
concurrently at the European context and beyond it, putting the
spotlight on new voices in translation and gender research in the
region but also encouraging transnational dialogues on key issues
in the discipline, pushing the field further into new directions.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars in translation
studies, gender studies, and European literature.
This book explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics
methods. Indeed, Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies has become a
widely used approach for the critical (or non-critical) analysis of
discourses in recent times. The book focuses on the analysis of
different kinds of discourse, but most particularly on those which
attempt to unveil social attitudes and values. Although a corpus
methodology is deemed crucial in all research found here, it should
not be inferred that a single, uniform technique is applied, but a
wide variety of them, often shaped by the software which has been
used. Also, more than one (qualitative or quantitative) methodology
or drawing from various relevant sources is often called for in the
critical analysis of discourses.
Gendered and sexual identities are unstable constructions which
reveal a great deal about the ideologies and power relatinships
affecting individuals and societies. The interaction between
gender/sex studies and translation studies points to a fascinating
arena of discursive conflict in which our intimate desires and
identities are established or rejected, (re)negotiated or censored,
sanctioned or tabooed. This volume explores diverse and
heterogeneous aspects of the manipulation of gendered and sexual
identities. Contributors examine translation as a feminist practice
and/or theory; the importance of gender-related context in
translation; the creation of a female image of secondariness
through dubbing and state censoriship; attempts to suppress the
blantantly patriarchal and sexist references in the German dubbed
versions of James Bond films; the construction of national heroism
and national identity as male preserve; the enactment of
Chamberlain's 'gender metaphorics' in Scliar and Calvino; the
transformation of Japanese romance fiction through Harlequin
translations; the translations of the erotic as site for testing
the complex rewriting(s) of identity in sociohistorical term; and
the emergence of NRTs (New Reproductive Technologies), which is
causing fundamental changes in the perception of 'creativity' or
'procreation' as male domains.
Gendered and sexual identities are unstable constructions which
reveal a great deal about the ideologies and power relatinships
affecting individuals and societies. The interaction between
gender/sex studies and translation studies points to a fascinating
arena of discursive conflict in which our intimate desires and
identities are established or rejected, (re)negotiated or censored,
sanctioned or tabooed. This volume explores diverse and
heterogeneous aspects of the manipulation of gendered and sexual
identities. Contributors examine translation as a feminist practice
and/or theory; the importance of gender-related context in
translation; the creation of a female image of secondariness
through dubbing and state censoriship; attempts to suppress the
blantantly patriarchal and sexist references in the German dubbed
versions of James Bond films; the construction of national heroism
and national identity as male preserve; the enactment of
Chamberlain's 'gender metaphorics' in Scliar and Calvino; the
transformation of Japanese romance fiction through Harlequin
translations; the translations of the erotic as site for testing
the complex rewriting(s) of identity in sociohistorical term; and
the emergence of NRTs (New Reproductive Technologies), which is
causing fundamental changes in the perception of 'creativity' or
'procreation' as male domains.
The aim of this volume is to offer an international panorama of
gendered and sexualised experiences, with new and original data
collected from a variety of cultural settings and sociopolitical
contexts. We look at many parts of the world (Japan, Sweden,
Poland, Cyprus, Spain, US, Australia, Canada, Hungary) with
different assumptions and expectations, often revealing various
research practices and traditions. Gendered or sexualized
discourses are unstable constructions, in permanent transition, in
a perpetual struggle to gain social legitimacy and to counter the
workings of opposite discourses. They constitute privileged vantage
points from which one can observe and judge power relationships.
New identities are created and reproduced, refused and challenged.
This volume explores, among other issues, the perpetuation of
hegemonic masculinity in Evangelical universities; the
pharmaceutical industry's promotion of biometaphors involving a
shopping strategy which revolves around compulsory heterosexuality;
the perpetuation of Greek-Cypriot men's sexual superiority over
women; the Catholic Church's attempt to impose a restrictive view
of religion and of sexual ethics; the consolidation of American TV
shopping channels as a setting where middle-class femininity and
consumption are linked stereotypically; the negotiation of gender-
and sex-related norms in groups of British Bangladeshi girls. Even
heterosexuality, as the unmarked form of sexual identity and the
primary site for the reproduction of gender difference, needs to
reassert its normative and prescriptive status, maybe through the
silent workings of tradition. By suggesting the concept of
transition, we resist seeing the idea of identity as a fixed and
definitive category. Gender and sexual identities are never at
rest. One is never finished developing into a woman or a man, or
any other gender/sexual identity. Contributors include: Joan
Pujolar, Andrea Simon-Maeda, Allyson Jule, Stina Ericsson,
Agnieszka Kielkiewicz-Janowiak, Joanna Pawelczyk, Nora Schleicher,
Elli Doukanari, Pilar Garces-Conejos, Lidia Tanaka, Jose
Santaemilia and Pia Pichler.
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