Module 6: Cultural turn in translation Translator
  Lecture 24: Issues of Gender
 

 

Assignments

  1. What is the role played by women translators in the history of translation?
  2. Identify the gender bias in your mother-tongue and see how it compares in translation with a foreign language like English.

References

Chamberlain, Lori. “Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation”, The Translation Studies Reader. Ed. Lawrence Venuti. London: Routledge, 1980: 314 – 329

Simon, Sherry. “Gender and Translation”, <http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/7168/Gender-in-Translation.html>