Iván Villanueva Jordán (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas)
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How to cite in APA 7: Villanueva-Jordán, I. (20xx, xx de mes). Introductory Readings on Gender and Translation. https://trujamancia.com/blog/
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A Metaphoric Introduction
- Chamberlain, Lori. (1988). Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 13(3), 454–472. https://doi.org/10.1086/494428
- Godayol, Pilar. (2013). Metaphors, women and translation: From les belles infidèles to la frontera. Gender and Language, 7(1), 97–116. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.v7i1.97
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These two publications have been particularly important in my own understanding of gender and translation. From a pedagogical perspective, they introduce two theoretical approaches that continue to shape the field. Chamberlain's article draws on a materialist understanding of gender relations, showing how the political economy of sex and gender is reproduced through the metaphors of translation. Godayol's article introduces the deconstructionist concepts that have become central to theorizing the relationship between gender and translation.
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Difference, Deconstruction, Differance
- Godard, Barbara. (1990). Theorizing Feminist Discourse/Translation. Translation, History, Culture, 87–96. (Available here).
- Simon, Sherry. (1996). Gender in Translation. Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission. Routledge.
- Vidal Claramonte, África. (1997). De por qué no se puede traducir en femenino. In M. Vega & R. Martín Gaitero (Eds.), VII Encuentros (Volumen II): Lengua y Cultura. Estudios en torno a la Traducción (pp. 229–232). Universidad Complutense. (Available here)
- Godayol, Pilar. (2008). Derrida y la teoría de la traducción en femenino. In Patrizia Calefato & Pilar Godayol (Eds.), Traducción/género/poscolonialismo (pp. 67–74). La Crujía.
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These texts serve to introduce two theoretical traditions that have profoundly influenced the study of gender and translation. The first is rooted in French feminism and its emphasis on difference, which deeply shaped the development of Canadian feminist translation. The second brings together poststructuralism and Derridean deconstruction, particularly through scholarship produced in Spain. If you're interested in this latter tradition, Núria Molines-Galarza and I discuss it in more detail elsewhere 😉.
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Transgender
- Gramling, David & Dutta, Aniruddha. (2016). Translating Transgender. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 3(3-4). https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/3/3-4
- Robinson, Douglas. (2019). Transgender, translation, translingual address. Bloomsbury.
- Rose, Emily. (2021). Translating Trans Identity (Re)Writing Undecidable Texts and Bodies. Routledge.
Censorship
- Zaragoza, Gora. (2019). Gender, Translation, and Censorship. In O. I. Seel (Ed.), Censorship, Surveillance, and Privacy (pp. 1868–1892). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7113-1.ch093
- Giugliano, Marcello & Hernández Socas, Elia. (2020). Ambivalence, Gender, and Censorship in two Spanish Translations of Little Women. Meta, 64(2), 312–333. https://doi.org/10.7202/1068197ar