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14 - Translation, Gender and Sexuality

from Part III - Translation in Company

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

By
Brian James Baer
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Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
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University of Leicester
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Summary

Chapter 14 addresses the relationships between translation and gender and sexuality, which began to be discussed in translation studies in the 1980 by scholars often informed by feminist theory and by the minority rights and independence movements of the time. The chapter deals with translation and gender and with sexuality and translation in separate sections, to reflect the fact that gender identity and sexual orientation are not mutually determining. It surveys current research within those discrete but intersecting categories, before discussing emerging themes and future directions.

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Translationgendersexualityfeminist theoryminority rightsindependence movements
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The Cambridge Handbook of Translation , pp. 277 - 297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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