Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Julia C. Bullock, "Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex "
English | ISBN: 1032426772 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1308 KB + 18 MB
English | ISBN: 1032426772 | 2023 | 250 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1308 KB + 18 MB
This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949.
Little scholarly attention has been devoted to how the original French-language source text made its way into languages other than English. This is a shocking omission, given that many (but by no means all) other translations were based on the 1953 English translation by Howard M. Parshley, which has been widely criticized by Beauvoir scholars for its omissions and careless attention to its philosophical implications. This volume seeks to fill this gap in scholarship with an innovative collection of essays that interrogate the ways that Beauvoir’s essay has shifted in meaning and significance as it has travelled across the globe.
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