Gender Approaches in the Translation Classroom

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Potential of Gender Training in the Translation Classroom

   • Marcella De Marco, Piero Toto

   Pages 1-7

3. Turning Translation Training into Life Training

   • Francesca Vigo

   Pages 9-26

4. Parameters, Thresholds and Liminal Spaces: Designing a Course on Sex, Gender and Translation

   • Pauline Henry-Tierney

   Pages 27-44

5. Social Action and Critical Consciousness in the Socialization of Translators-to-Be: A Classroom Experience

   • Robert Martínez-Carrasco

   Pages 45-61

6. Teaching Gender Issues in Advertising Translation: The Case of University Marketing

   • Antonia Montés

   Pages 63-82

7. Queer(y)ing (Im)Possibilities in the British Academic Translation Classroom

   • Michela Baldo

   Pages 83-102

8. Gayspeak in the Translation Classroom

   • Irene Ranzato

   Pages 103-126

9. Indirect Sexism in John Grisham’s Sycamore Row (2013): Unveiling Sexual Inequality Through a Gender-Committed Pedagogy in the Translation Classroom

   • José Santaemilia

   Pages 127-143

10. Ideological Transfer in the Translation Activity: Power and Gender in Emma Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch

    • María Amor Barros del Río, Elena Alcalde Peñalver

    Pages 145-165

11. Integrating Gender Perspective in Interpreter Training: A Fundamental Requirement in Contexts of Gender Violence

    • Carmen Toledano Buendía

    Pages 167-187

12. The Future of Academia, Gender and Queer Pedagogy: Concluding Remarks

    • Marcella De Marco, Piero Toto

    Pages 189-193

13. Back Matter

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This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes. Drawing on a rich collection of theoretically-informed case studies, its authors provide practical advice and examples on implementing gender-inclusive approaches and language strategies in the classroom. It focuses on topics including, how to develop gender-inclusive practices to challenge students’ attitudes and behaviours; whether there are institutional constraints that prevent trainers from implementing non-heteronormative practices in their teaching; and how gender awareness can become an everyday mode of expression. Positioned at the lively interface of gender and translation studies, this work will be of interest to practitioners and scholars from across the fields of linguistics, education, sociology and cultural studies.

• audiovisual translation
• translator training
• queer and feminist pedagogy
• feminist translation theory
• Critical translation
• queer translation
• critical pedagogy
• language and power
• dubbing
• performativity
• Second-language acquisition
• gender inclusive teaching strategies
• discourse analysis
• social constructivism
• localisation
• institutional text translation
• heteronormativity
• language and gender

“Overall, this volume offers a well-organised collection of empirical research that may help students to ‘develop a critical and reflective translation process with a gender lens’ … . In addition, each chapter in the book is self-contained and readers can select chapters on the basis of their research interests. … this volume represents a courageous attempt at investigating the relatively underexplored field … and therefore is worth reading for researchers and practitioners in both translation- and gender-related fields.” (Xinxin Wu, Gender and Language, Vol. 15 (3), 2021)

• London Metropolitan University, London, UK

  Marcella De Marco, Piero Toto

Marcella De Marco is a Senior Lecturer in Translation at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Audiovisual Translation through a Gender Lens (2012).


Piero Toto is a Senior Lecturer in Translation at London Metropolitan University, UK. His research interests include translation technology, localization, gender and queer studies.

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