“The book’s value lies in its effort at internationalising women and gender issues in/through translation beyond the North American and European contexts. A must-read for those interested in women as translators and women as translated across a variety of languages and cultures.”

-José Santaemilia, University of Valencia, Spain

Luise von Flotow has taught Translation Studies at the University of Ottawa since 1996. Her most recent publications include Translation Effects. The Shaping of Contemporary Canadian Culture 2014 (ed. with Kathy Mezei and Sherry Simon), and They Divided the Sky 2013, a re-translation from German of Christa Wolf’s Der geteilte Himmel.

Farzaneh Farahzad is Professor of Translation Studies at Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Role of Women Translators

1. Woman Translators in Contemporary Iran — Farzaneh Farahzad

2. Negotiating Western and Muslim Feminine Identities through Translation: Western Female Converts Translating the Quran — Rim Hassen

Part II: Applying Feminism in Translation

3. Translational Beginnings and Origin/izing Stories: (Re)Writing the History of the Contemporary Feminist Movement in Turkey — Emek Ergun

4. Translating into Democracy: The Politics of Translation, Our Bodies, Ourselves, and the “Other Europe” — Anna Bogic

5. De-Feminizing Translation: To Make Women Visible in Japanese Translation — Hiroko Furukawa

6. Translation with Fluctuating Feminist Intention: Letras y Encajes: A Colombian Women’s Magazine of the 1930s — Maria Victoria Tipiani Lopera

Part III: Translating Women Authors in Context

7. Three’s a Crowd: The Translator-Author-Publisher and the Engineering of Girls of Riyadh for an Anglophone Readership — Marilyn Booth

8. The Travels of a Cuban Feminist Discourse: Ena Lucía Portela’s Transgressive Writing Strategies in Translation. — Arianne Des Rochers

9. Gender and the Chinese Context: The 1956 and 1999 Versions of Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing — Li Hongyu

10. Manipulating Simone de Beauvoir: A Study of Chinese Translations of The Second Seex — Liu Haiping (Nicki)

Part IV: Feminist Translation Projects

11. Voices from the Therīgāthā: Framing Western Feminisms in Sinhala Translation — Kanchuka Dharmasiri

12. Meridiano 105°: An E-Anthology of Women Poets in Mexican and Canadian Indigenous Languages — Claudia Lucotti and Maria Antonieta Rosas

13. The Translation of Islamic Feminism at CERFI in Morocco — Bouchra Laghzali