Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900 : : Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher.

• Author: Gehmacher, Johanna, 1962-
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Translation History Series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900 -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Translating and Mediating Feminisms, Travelling Women's Movements -- Praises, Noises, and the Mediator's Choices -- Approaches to Transnational Practices of Communication in and among Social Movements -- Käthe Schirmacher, a Travelling Writer, Translator, Mediator-and Nationalist -- A Case Study of a Transnational Life -- Travelling, Living Transnationally, and Connecting Women's Movements in the West -- Translating, Activism, and Trust -- The Language of Translation and the Risk the Transnational Mediator Takes… -- Notes -- 2 Become a Translator! Formations of an Im/Possible Persona -- Gendered Scientific/Scholarly Personae and the Exclusion of Women -- Danzig 1882: Can I be a Student?23 -- Paris 1887: An Aspiring Young Woman Negotiates Her Future -- Gendered Personae in Academia -- Notes -- 3 Men, Women and Progress. Literary Translation -- A Romantic Novel on the 'Dreadful Woman Question' and Its Author -- In a Transnational Community of Woman Teachers -- Adapting Men, Women and Progress for a German Audience -- Publication in an Activist Context -- A Transcultural Literary Exchange -- Translating for Money -- Constellations of Translation and Transnational Transfer -- Notes -- 4 To America! Transatlantic Mediation -- Transatlantic Exchanges -- The Modern Woman -- Becoming a Mediator -- Notes -- 5 Correspondences: Transnational Journalism -- Journalism as a Profession for Women -- Letter from Paris -- Becoming a French Journalist -- Letter from Germany -- A Public Exchange on Women Artists and Old Maids -- A Transnational Journalist -- Correspondences, Audiences, Epistolary Selves -- Notes -- 6 Féminisme: Translations, Transfers, and Transformations.

Public Interest in Women's Activism as a Transnational Phenomenon -- Comparing Constellations and Connecting Activists -- A Global Perspective Based on Ethnicised and Racialised Differences -- Useful Information for Activists -- Transfers and Translations of a Concept -- Reviews, Receptions, and Reflections -- Notes -- 7 Travel as Political Practice and Economic Strategy -- Apostle Journeys -- Fishing Hauls -- Imagining the Other -- Notes -- 8 Interpreting and Translating Transnational Activism -- Suffrage Activism in a Transnational Arena -- Interpreting at the IWSA Conferences -- Common Ground and Conflict Zones -- Covering Conferences, Transferring the Suffrage Cause into National Arenas -- Media and Means for Transnational Transfer-Jus Suffragii and the Translation Fund -- Controversies in Translation -- Notes -- 9 'Suffragettes' in Germany: Translating Militancy -- Not Like a Lady -- Contexts and Controversies -- Explaining a Militant Movement to a German Audience -- Excerpt, Transfer, and Transformation -- 'Suffragettes' in the German Women's Movements -- Sufrażetki and the New Type of Woman-Reception Across Time and Borders -- Notes -- 10 Conclusion: Inside and Outside the Contact Zones of Transnational Women's Movements of the West -- 'Our Alliance as a Teacher of Languages' -- 'Unfair Translations'? Enquiries About a Travelling Slander -- Ends of Translation and the Case of the Translator -- Strategical and Methodological Nationalism -- The Persona of the Modern Woman -- Mediations and Differences in a Transnational Civil Society of Female Activists -- Trust and the Continuum of Activist Translation -- Transnational Journalism and the Travel of Concepts -- Hierarchies and Divisions -- Silences -- The Language of Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.