Humbly dissenting. Revisiting Italian translation of eighteenth-century vindications for the rights of women in the twenty-first century
Author(s)
Date Issued
2021
Type
bookPart
Volume
2
Start Page
221
End Page
230
Abstract
The translator, in her/his activity, has always resembled Janus Bifrons, the god of
transitions, passages and endings looking, simultaneously, to the past and the future .
This is particularly the case of the translation of texts produced by women in the past
centuries. In translating women’s writing other competences and skills are, in fact,
necessary in order to better (re)present the revolutionary ideas concealed behind an
apparently conventional use of language in their own time. In this contribution, the
authoress illustrates the difficulties in translating, from English to Italian, the vindications
for the right to education produced by some British women writers of the eighteenth
century.