Identifying and countering sexist labels in Arabic translation

Transnational Feminist Translation and the Skirmishes of Anglo-American Gender Identity Politics: No need to translate

“…More recently, the research focus has turned to audiovisual productsfilms, TV series, advertising, video games and their translationto study how women's lives and opportunities are presented in these media (Boito, 2023;Bosseaux, 2023). One recently published feminist translation studies project that turned out to be strikingly transnational is the Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender (2020) in which academics from around the world addressed a variety of questions related to the intersection of contemporary (and past) feminisms and translation: it included a study of the celebrity factor that comes with consecutive interpreting by women in China (Du, 2020); a study of how the translated instructions on cleaning products in the Arab world designate these products only for women (Dawood, 2020); an article on Volga, the Telugu translator, who worked from English, French and Russian, to single-handedly bring feminist ideas into Telugu society in India in the 1970s (Eligedi, 2020); a comparative analysis of the Spanish translations in Spain and in Latin Americaof the same Chicana/American author, Gloria Anzaldúa, that points to the sociocultural differences between these two closely related spheres and the different translatorial intentions (Spoturno, 2020); an analysis of the work of "naïve" Russian translators of Anglo-American feminist texts in the 1990s as new concepts and terms entered the post-Soviet Russian vocabulary (Barchunova, 2020). The broad array of topics in this collection, including work on the translation of literary, institutional, commercial, audiovisual, and religious texts, provides a repertoire of ideas to stimulate further research on translation from a feminist perspective across the world.…”