Translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translation

List of Illustrations

Introduction

JULIA C. BULLOCK AND PAULINE HENRY- TIERNEY

PART I: Framing Le Deuxieme Sexe: Contexts, Paratexts, and Practice

1 The 1980s Chinese Translations of The Second Sex and Women's Situation in 1980s China: A Post-translation Study Approach

ZHONGLI YU

2 Paratextual Elements in Arabic Translations of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxieme Sexe

HALA G. SAMI

3 The Process of Translating Le Deuxieme Sexe into European Spanish: Challenges and Opportunities

MARIA LUISA RODRIGUEZ MUNOZ

PART II: (Mis)interpreting Beauvoir: Philosophical and Ideological Framing of the Text

4 Goulash Socialism vs. Feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary

URSULA HURLEY AND SZILVIA NARAY- DAVEY

5 The Polish Translation of Le Deuxieme Sexe in the Hands of the Censorship Office

WERONIKA SZWEBS

6 The Controversial Arabic Translations of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxieme Sexe

ISABELLE MEHAWEJ

7 Le Deuxieme Sexe Censored under Francoism

PILAR GODAYOL

PART III: Impact: Beauvoir's Legacy for Philosophy and Feminisms Worldwide

8 Erotic Love and Marriage in English Translations of Beauvoir's Le Deuxieme Sexe

ELLIE ANDERSON

9 Translating in Bad Faith? Articulations of Beauvoir's Existentialist Philosophy in the English Translations of Le Deuxieme Sexe

PAULINE HENRY- TIERNEY

10 Reclaiming Beauvoir: The Feminist (Re)translation of Le Deuxieme Sexe in Japan

JULIA C. BULLOCK

11 Untranslatability and Le Deuxieme Sexe

PENELOPE DEUTSCHER

Epilogue: Translating Key Concepts in Le Deuxieme Sexe: A Crosslinguistic Discussion

EDITED BY JULIA C. BULLOCK AND PAULINE HENRY- TIERNEY

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