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Publication details [#1230]

Kadish, Doris Y. and Françoise Massardier-Kenney, eds. 1994. Translating slavery: gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823 (Translation Studies 2). Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. xviii + 346 pp.

Publication type

Edited volume

Publication language

English

Keywords

feminism | gender | historical approach=historiography=history | ideology | racism

Main ISBN

0-87338-498-9

Abstract

This study explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender and race. It focuses on anti-slavery writing by French women during the revolutionary period, when a number of them spoke out against the oppression of slaves and women.

Source : Bitra

Reviewed by

Gaddis Rose, Marilyn. 1995. Review of Translating slavery: gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823. The Translator 1 (1) : 93–96.

St-Pierre, Paul. 1997. Review of Translating slavery: gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823. In Seleskovitch, Danica, ed. L'interprétation en langues des signes [Sign interpreting]. Special issue of Meta 42 (3): 589–592.