A Translation Report On Mothers Of Invention: Women Of The Slaveholding South In The American Civil War

This is a translation report on Chapter I What Shall We Do? of Mothers of Invention：Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War. The author of this book isCatharine Drew Cilpin Faust, who is an American historian and was the president ofHarvard University. The writing setting of this book is the American Civil War, and theauthor Drew Faust, using strict and objective language, reveals the inner life ofSouthern women during the American Civil War. Although there are a lot of worksrelated to the American Civil War history research, books that focus on the research ofSouthern women in Civil War are few and far between. Therefore, for Americanhistorians, this book is an excellent work that cannot be missed. This translation reportwill describe the writer’s translation process, analyze the content and characteristics ofthe original text, and discuss translation difficulties, and the translation theory andstrategy that used as the solution of them. In the end, the writer summarizes unsolvedproblems, and talks about the prospect of future study and work.