This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000. The contributors examine what happens when a politically motivated text is translated linguistically and culturally, the translators and their aims, and the strategies employed when adapting texts to locally resonating discourses. The collection aims to answer these questions through case studies and a conceptual rethinking of the process of politically engaged translation, considering not only trained translators and publishers, but also feminist activists and groups, NGOs and writers. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of translation studies, gender/women's studies, literature and feminist history.

For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women's Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM's cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.

For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women's Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM's cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other parts of the world.

1933-1945: Tausende von Kulturschaffenden verlassen Nazi-Deutschland, ein Teil von ihnen geht in die Schweiz. Warum haben sie es schwer, dort Fuss zu fassen? Wie kommt es, dass das Verhaltnis zwischen schweizerischen und deutschen Autoren trotz ihrer kulturellen Nahe belastet ist? Das Buch eroffnet eine neue Perspektive auf alte Fragen, denn es betrachtet das literarische Exil in der Schweiz aus der Sicht des Ankunftslandes. Die schweizerischen Schriftsteller befanden sich in Bezug auf die deutschsprachigen Autoren, die in der Schweiz Zuflucht suchten, in einer Struktur der Doppelbindung: Sie orientierten sich einerseits an den literarischen Zentren des deutschsprachigen literarischen Feldes und waren andererseits auf die Anerkennung der Peers der nationalen schweizerischen Literaturproduktion angewiesen. Indem die Autorin das Konzept des "double bind" operationalisiert, gelingt es, eine Brucke zwischen einer literatursoziologischen und einer historischen Betrachtungsweise zu schlagen und damit die ambivalente Haltung der Schweizer Autoren zu erklaren."

This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000. The contributors examine what happens when a politically motivated text is translated linguistically and culturally, the translators and their aims, and the strategies employed when adapting texts to locally resonating discourses. The collection aims to answer these questions through case studies and a conceptual rethinking of the process of politically engaged translation, considering not only trained translators and publishers, but also feminist activists and groups, NGOs and writers. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of translation studies, gender/women's studies, literature and feminist history.