TY - JOUR
TI - Translating Feminism
AU - Gajewska, Agnieszka
TI - Translating Feminism
AB - 
	Pointing to manifold and long-lasting connections between feminism and translation, the article first presents a selection of multilingual writers (Narcyza Żmichowska and Deborah Vogel), translators (Zofi a Żeleńska and Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna) and translation commentators (Joanna Lisek and Karolina Szymaniak) to ask why the work of early Polish feminists is neglected. It seems that one of the causes might be the current colonization of Polish feminist discourse by English. For ethical reasons it would be advisable to recommend a certain sensitivity to locality in feminist translation studies and a recognition of regionalism in cultural studies. The theoretical considerations include two issues: the potential hermaphroditism of the Polish language when its users are women and the “scandal of ‘another’s speech’,” a polyphony and a constitutive lack of autonomy (a feminist discussion of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory). From this vantage point it becomes clear that linguistic choices made by the translator are always individual one-off solutions which resist homogenization, paradigms or (theoretical) generalizations.
VL - Issues in English
IS - Issue 24/2010 – Feminism and translation
PY - 2012
SN - 1425-6851
C1 - 1689-1864
SP - 7
EP - 18
DO - 10.4467/16891864ePC.12.001.0563
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/translating-feminism
KW - Polish feminist discourse
KW - the English language
KW - sensitivity as a category
KW - regionalism in cultural studies
KW - politics of translation
KW - rhetoric of nondifferentiation
KW - interlingual transgression
KW - Narcyza Żmichowska
KW - Zofi a Żeleńska
KW - Debora Vogel
KW - Kazimiera