Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900

Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-42762-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 349 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Translation History

This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the women’s movements that emerged in many countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. It discusses practices such as translating, interpreting, and excerpting from journals and books that spawned and supported transnational civic spaces and develops a theoretical framework to analyse these practices. It examines translations of literary, scholarly and political texts and their contexts. The book will be of interest to academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of modern history, women’s and gender history, cultural studies, transnational and transfer history, translation studies, history and theory of biography.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gehmacher, Johanna

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Biographical Case Study of Transnational Practices of Transfer.- Chapter 2: To Become a Translator.- Chapter 3: 'Men, Women and Progress'.- Chapter 4: To America!.- Chapter 5: Letters from Paris: Letters from Germany.- Chapter 6: Trans/national Encounters: Winter Travels Through Europe.- Chapter 7: 'The Modern Women’s Rights Movement’.- Chapter 8: 'As Interpreter for This Convention, I Feel That I Must Not Continue My Office': London 1909.- Chapter 9: 'Suffragettes in Germany': Translating Militancy.- Chapter 10: When Translation Ends.

Über Autor(innen)

Johanna Gehmacher is Professor of Modern and Gender History at the University of Vienna, Austria.