Translating Simone de Beauvoir's 'The second sex' : transnational framing, interpretation, and impact / edited by Julia C. Bullock and Pauline Henry-Tierney.

"This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949. Little scholarly attention has been devoted to how...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors:	Bullock, Julia C. (Editor), Henry-Tierney, Pauline (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English French Multiple
Published:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:	Routledge advances in translation studies.
Subjects:	Deuxième sexe. > English. Women.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS　IntroductionJulia C. Bullock and Pauline Henry-TierneyPART I: Framing Le Deuxième Sexe: Contexts, Paratexts, and PracticeChapter 1: The 1980s Chinese Translations of The Second Sex and Women's Situation in 1980s China: A Post-translation Study ApproachZhongli YuChapter 2: Paratextual Elements in Arabic Translations of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième SexeHala G. SamiChapter 3: The Process of Translating Le Deuxième Sexe into European Spanish: Challenges and OpportunitiesMaría Luisa Rodríguez MuñozPART II: (Mis)interpreting Beauvoir: Philosophical and Ideological Framing of the TextChapter 4: Goulash Socialism vs. FeminismBeauvoir in HungaryUrsula Hurley and Szilvia Naray-DaveyChapter 5: The Polish Translation of Le Deuxième Sexe in the Hands of the Censorship OfficeWeronika SzwebsChapter 6: The Controversial Arabic Translations of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe Isabelle MehawejChapter 7: Le Deuxième Sexe Censored under Francoism Pilar GodayolPART III: Impact: Beauvoir's Legacy for Philosophy and Feminisms WorldwideChapter 8: Erotic Love and Marriage in English Translations of Beauvoir's　Le Deuxième SexeEllie AndersonChapter 9: Translating in Bad FaithArticulations of Beauvoir's Existentialist Philosophy in the English Translations of Le Deuxième SexePauline Henry-TierneyChapter 10: Reclaiming Beauvoir: The Feminist (Re)translation of Le Deuxième Sexe in JapanJulia C. BullockChapter 11: Untranslatability and Le Deuxième SexePenelope DeutscherEpilogue: Translating Key Concepts in Le Deuxième Sexe: A Crosslinguistic DiscussionJulia C. Bullock and Pauline Henry-TierneyIndex LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS　Ellie Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College, USA. She has previously published on Beauvoir's ethics and philosophy of erotic love in the Continental Philosophy Review, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. She has also translated works by Jacques Derrida from French to English. Julia C. Bullock is Professor of Japanese Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of The Other Women's Lib (2010) and Coeds Ruining the Nation (2019); and co-editor of Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (2017) and Translating Feminism (2021). She is currently working on a book provisionally titled Beauvoir in Japan.Penelope Deutscher is Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA. Her publications include　Yielding Gender (1997), A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (2002), The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (2008) and Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason (2017). Pilar Godayol is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Spain. She currently coordinates the Gender Studies Research Group GETLIHC. Her research interests include translation, feminism and censorship. She is the author of over 100 publications, including Tres escritoras censuradas (2017) and Feminismos y traducción (1965-1990) (2021).Pauline Henry-Tierney is Lecturer in French and Translation Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her research interests lie in relation to the translation of transgressive women's writing in French and to the translation of Simone de Beauvoir's work. Her monograph Translating Transgressive Texts will be published by Routledge in 2023.Ursula Hurley and Szilvia Naray-Davey are practice-based researchers working on feminist literary translation in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at the University of Salford, UK. The research presented in this chapter is a specific instance of a long-term collaboration, investigating women's histories in Eastern Europe.Isabelle Mehawej is sworn translator before the Courts in Lebanon and PhD researcher in translation studies at ÉSIT-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France. Her thesis is focused on the translation and reception of Beauvoirian feminism in the Arab world.　María Luisa Rodríguez holds a PhD in Languages and Cultures from Universidad de Cordoba, Spain, where she has worked as a full-time scholar lecturing Legal and Intercultural Translation since 2010. Her research interests are: Intercultural Translation, Translation and Gender and Translation of Contemporary Art.Hala G. Sami is Associate Professor of English at Cairo University, Egypt. Her current research interests include cultural myths, gender and the public/private spheres, women's agency and empowerment in socio-political contexts. She is currently conducting research on the translation of Simone de Beauvoir in the Arab world. Weronika Szwebs is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Polish Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. Her main research interests involve translation of theoretical discourses, translation and reception of Polish literature in the English-speaking countries, contemporary Polish literature and literary theory. She translates literary, social and cultural theory from English into Polish. Zhongli Yu is Associate Professor in Translation Studies in the School of Education and English at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, holding a PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies (Manchester). Her research interests include gender/women/feminism in/and translation, museum narratives and translation, war interpreting/interpreter, translation education, and intercultural communication.

Translating Simone de Beauvoir's 'The second sex' : transnational framing, interpretation, and impact / edited by Julia C. Bullock and Pauline Henry-Tierney.

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