Translating feminism in China : : gender, sexuality and censorship / / Zhongli Yu.

• Superior document: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies ; 9
• VerfasserIn: Yu, Zhongli.,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge advances in translation studies ;
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book explores translation of feminism in China through examining several Chinese translations of two typical feminist works: The Second Sex (TSS, Beauvoir 1949/1952) and The Vagina Monologues (TVM, Ensler 1998). TSS exposes the cultural construction of woman while TVM reveals the pervasiveness...

Table of Contents

• Contents
• List of tables
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Gender, feminism, and translation: Key terms and concepts
• 1.2 TSS and TVM: Gender, sexuality, and censorship
• 1.3 Overview of chapters
• 1.4 Examples, back-translations, strategy terms, and Chinese names and sources
• 2 Feminist translation: Practice, theory, and studies
• 2.1 Feminist approaches to translation
• 2.1.1 Feminist translation strategies: Flotow's summary
• 2.1.2 Feminist translation strategies: Massardier-Kenny's redefinition.
• 2.1.3 Feminist translation strategies: Maier's outline
• 2.1.4 Feminist translation strategies: Wallmach's analysis
• 2.2 Feminist translation studies: Within and outside China
• 2.2.1 Feminist translation studies outside China
• 2.2.1.1 Feminist translation studies in the 1980s
• 2.2.1.2 Feminist translation studies in the 1990s
• 2.2.1.3 Feminist translation studies in the twenty-first century
• 2.2.1.4 Sexuality in translation studies
• 2.2.2 Feminist translation studies within China
• 2.2.2.1 Emergence of feminist translation studies in the 1990s.
• 2.2.2.2 Development of feminist translation studies in the twenty-first century
• 3 Contextualising the Chinese translations of The Second Sex and The Vagina Monologues
• 3.1 Le Deuxième Sexe and The Second Sex
• 3.2 Chinese translations of The Second Sex
• 3.3 The Vagina Monologues
• 3.4 Chinese translations of The Vagina Monologues
• 4 Translating the female body and female sexuality in The Second Sex
• 4.1 Translating the female body
• 4.1.1 Women's physical appearance
• 4.1.2 Women's psychology of their bodies
• 4.2 Translating female sexuality
• 4.3 Summary
• 5 Translating the female body and female sexuality in The Vagina Monologues
• 5.1 Translating 'vagina'
• 5.2 Translating sexual violence
• 5.3 Translating misogyny
• 5.4 Summary
• 6 Translating lesbianism in The Second Sex and The Vagina Monologues
• 6.1 Lesbianism in the Chinese translations of The Second Sex
• 6.2 Lesbianism in the Chinese translations of The Vagina Monologues
• 6.2.1 'The vagina workshop'
• 6.2.2 'The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could'
• 6.2.3 'The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy'
• 6.3 Summary
• 7 Censorship, sexuality, and translation 7.1 Censorship, translation, and translation publishing
• 7.2 Translation publishing from 1980 to 2009
• 7.2.1 Revival and fluctuation from 1980 to 1989
• 7.2.2 Depression and reformation from 1990 to 1999
• 7.2.3 Market-oriented development from 2000 to 2009
• 7.3 Censorship of sexuality and the Chinese translations of The Second Sex
• 7.4 Censorship of sexuality, and the Chinese translations of The Vagina Monologues
• 7.5 Summary
• 8 Conclusion: Gender, feminism, and translation studies
• 8.1 Gender, translation strategies, and translation effects
• 8.2 Female/male: Essentialism?
• 8.3 Feminist translation studies: Where are we going?
• Bibliography
• Index.