Feminist Positionalities in Translation Studies

This chapter offers a necessarily brief and partial, but hopefully accurate, sketch of the positions adopted by prominent feminist scholars towards the concept of women and gender since the emergence of the so-called Canadian School until present-day calls for a transnational and intersectional sub-field of Feminist Translation Studies. Our discussion centres on the following questions: what does it mean to be a feminist researching translation or a feminist translator? What does transnational feminism look like? We present our perspective on the development of this sub-field as critical friends who identify as feminists and translation scholars. We pay particular attention to the adoption of intersectionality as a feminist position and an analytical perspective, calls for global alliances, and the use of the discourse of ethics to talk and write about feminist translation.