A Study Of Translation From The Perspective Of Femiinsm

The last thirty years of the 20th century is the era of feminism, during which feminist researches and research results emerged one after another. When feminism, a branch of"cultural turn"met translation, feminist translation came into being. Its appearance is no coincidence. Feminism and translation are of great historical and political relations. Translation facilitated feminist movements and made women heard in intellectual field during feminist development, while feminism offered great energy into translation. Moreover, feminist translation got its theoretical supports from Lacan's psychoanalysis theory, Barthes'poststructuralist theories and Derridean deconstruction theories.Feminist translation theory is one of great rebellion. It presents a brand-new explanation of most of translation issues like definition of translation, status of translators, notion of fidelity and translation strategies and methods. This is basically a rebellion against traditional translation theories. It is just because of its novelty and total rebellion that it confronts a lot of criticisms of its elitism, women-to-women translation and post-colonial translation. The criticisms also include that of feminist versions of the Bible with the focus on the"inclusive language". And, this paper just provides a brief discussion of the feminist translation of the Bible.Feminist translation in western countries has little influence on Chinese translation theory as well as practices, since the number tells no satisfactory scale. This paper here just presents a brief discussion of the relevant issues of feminist translation searching for further research and more attention from scholars. Thus, energy and vitality can possibly last in China translation field forever.