Gender Issues: Translating and Mediating Languages, Cultures and Societies

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Introduction (Eleonora Federici, Stefania M. Maci)
Gender Issues in Higher Education
	At the Crossroads of Gender and Specialized Translation: Interdisciplinarity and a Commitment to Sexual Equality. An Example from Soft Legal Genres (José Santaemil)
		1. Introduction
		2. Specialised Translation: Definitional Caveats and Disciplinary and Professional Consequences
		3. Legal Language and Translation: A Gender-Conscious Reexamination of Reality
		4. Legal Thrillers
		5. Legal Translations in the Classroom
			5.1. The current secretary was a thirty-one-year-old mother of four: Roxy, the lawyer’s secretary
			5.2. The better of those got married and pregnant and wanted six months off: Lawyers’ secretaries, an incompetent lot
			5.3. Touch her, and she’ll crack your teeth, then sue me for sexual harassment: Portia, the new secretary; or masculinity in danger
		6. Concluding Remarks: The Specialised Translation Classroom as an Instrument for Unveiling/Fighting Sexual Inequality
		References
	Gender-based Violences and Higher Education: A Case Study (Mª Carmen Acuyo Verdejo)
		1. Introduction
		2. Gender Studies in Spain and Sweden
		3. Terminological and Conceptual Variation in DGBV: Unity in Diversity?
		4. Harassment in Spain and Sweden: A Normative and Conceptual Approach
			4.1 Harassment in Sweden as a form of DGBV
		5. Harassment in Higher Education: Protocols for Action in UGR and SU
		6. Final Remarks
		References
	Gender Awareness Through and In Translation: a Learner Corpus Study (Bruna Di Sabato, Antonio Perri)
		1. Introduction
		2. Method
		3. Research
		4. Discussion
		5. Conclusion
		References
	Pedagogical, Normative-Prescriptive, and Descriptive Grammars - The Representation of Concordance and Grammatical Gender in Italian Language Manuals (Paolo Nitti)
		Introduction
		1. Research
		2. The Phases of the Research
		3. Data Analysis
		4. Conclusions
		References
Gender Issues in Institutional Documents
	The Search for Gender Equality in Institutional Translation: Quebec’s Bureau de la Traduction (Elena Castellano- Ortolá)
		1. Introduction
			1.1 New Legal Subject(s)? Multiplicity and Conflict in Feminism
		2. Gender Issues in Institutional Discourse
			2.1 (Est-ce que) “Je me souviens”
				2.1.1 Nationalism, “Francophonie”, and the Shaping of Identities
		3. Féminisation: The Bureau de la Traduction and Its Convictions
			3.1 Analysis of the B.T.’s Discourse-Layered Proposal
			3.2 Conclusions
		4. Concluding Remarks
			4.1 Pure-laine: Quebec’s Singularity through Linguistic Gender Awareness
		References
	Gender-sensitive Language and Intra-linguistic Translation: the Canadian Employment Equity Act Case Study (Federico Pio Gentile)
		1. The Canadian ‘Equity’ Situation Leading to the Act
		2. Drafting the Act
		3. Gender-Sensitivity and Intra-linguistic Translation Processes: A Case Study
		4. Conclusions
		References
	The Council of Europe Manual to Fight Gender-based Hate Speech: Translating and (Re)Mediating Institutional, Political and Legal Discourses (Sole Alba Zollo)
		1. Introduction: from Mass Media to “massed media”
		2. Free Speech vs Hate speech: A Controversial Concept
		3. Online Gender-based Hate Speech
		4. Translation Studies and Multimodal Discourse Analysis
		5. The Council of Europe’s Awareness-raising Initiatives to Fight Hate Speech
		6. The Bookmarks: An Intersemiotic Analysis5
		Concluding Remarks
		References
Gender Issues in Specialised Translation
	Translation and Gender-based Analysis in Health Research. Sexism in LSP Translation in Health Research in Serbia: The Documents Registered by ALIMS (Sonja Đurić, Radiša Pavlović)
		1. Introduction
		2. Theoretical Background
		3. Materials and Methods
		4. Results
			4.1 Statins
			4.2 ACE Inhibitors
			4.3 AT2 Receptor Blockers
			4.4 PDE5 Inhibitors
			4.5 Bisphosphonates
			4.6 Estrogen Preparations
		5. Discussion
		6. Conclusion
		References
	Gender Advisor, a New Role to Ensure Gender Equality Within NATO. To Translate or Not to Translate? (Carmen Fiano, Agnese Daniela Grimaldi)
		Introduction
		1. Gender Matters in NATO Armed Forces
		2. Defining Gender in NATO
		3. The Role of the Gender Advisor in NATO.
		4. Purpose of the Study
		5. Methodology
		6. Data Analysis and Discussion
		Conclusion
		References
	Women in the Maritime Industry through Job Ads: A Male Dominant or a Gender-Neutral Environment? (Vittoria Massaro)
		1. Women Seafarers: From Theory to Practice
		2. Towards Gender Equality
		3. The Corpora
			3.1 The English Corpus
			3.2 The Italian Corpus
		4. Conclusions
		Appendix
		References
Gender Issues in Interpreting and Audiovisual Translation
	Conference Interpreting – A Female Professional Monopoly or a Case of Occupational Segregation? (Deborah Giustini)
		1. Introduction
		2. Locating Women in Conference Interpreting
		3. Female Interpreters: A Matter of Cognitive Abilities?
		4. Female Interpreters: A Matter of Social Constraints?
		5. An Invitation to Further Research: the Feminisation of Conference Interpreting as a Case Study of Women’s Occupational Segregation
		References
	(Re)Inventing the Genre: The Translation of the Onē Kotoba Idiolect in Japanese-Italian Subtitling (Francesco Vitucci)
		1. Dynamic Equivalence and Sociolinguistic Variations in Japanese: The Case of Onē Kotoba
		2. Onē Kotoba in Action: Maison de Himiko (2005)5
		3. Onē kotoba in Action: Boku No Naka No Otoko No Ko (2012)
		4. Perspectives on Subtitling
		Appendix
		References
	Fighting Inferiority: Negotiating Identity and Otherness Through (Self)Translation (Vanessa Leonardi)
		1. Introduction
		2. Migrant Literature and (Self) Translation
		3. Language, Culture and Identity Lost in Translation
		4. Concluding Remarks
		References
	Ferrante Fever: A Worldwide Literary Phenomenon and her Translator’s Visibility (Flavia Cavaliere)
		1. The Spread of Ferrante Fever
		2. The Author’s Absence as a Need for a ‘Suspension of Disbelief’
		3. Goldstein, an “Enabler of Words”
		4. Translating Ferrante
		5. Concluding Remarks
		References
Gender Issues in the Press and Advertising
	L’écriture inclusive in the Language of Online Newspapers: Gender Translation from French into Italian (Michele Bevilacqua, Vincenzo Simoniello)
		1. Introduction
		2. Variation of Gender and Sexism in the French Language
		3. L’Écriture Inclusive in France and in Western Francophone Countries
		4. The Translation of Écriture Inclusive in Italian: Analysis of Some Textual Segments of Online Newspapers
		5. Conclusions
		6. References
	Female Views on the Press: How Women Reported the Economic Crisis in the British and Italian Press (Marzia Iasenza)
		1. Introduction
		2. Reference Corpora and Research Method
		3. Headlines: Sense vs. Sensibility
		4. Keywords: Gender Perspectives on the Crisis
		5. Conclusions
		Appendix. Newspaper articles collected for the study that are relevant as examples of the corpora or that were used for quotations in the text.
		References
	Trans (Gender) and Fobia in the Spanish and in the Italian Press (María Lucía Carrillo Expósito)
		1. Introduction
			1.1 Precedents and Context
		2. Methodology
		3. Premises
		4. Transfobia
		5. Quantitative Results
		6. Analysis of the Linguistic Strategies and the Discursive Dynamics
		7. The Italian Press
		8. Conclusions
		References
	Translating Gender, Transgender and Identity. The Case of NatGeo (Stefania M.. Maci)
		1. Introduction
		2. Study Object and Methodological Approach
		3. Data analysis
			3.1. The Cover
			3.2 Translating Otherness, Gender, and Identity: the Three Ms
				3.2.1. (Alphabetical Order or) Misplacement?
				3.2.2. Missing text
				3.2.3. Mistranslations
		6. Conclusions
		References
	Pushing Boundaries with Ad Parodies: Feminist Translation of Gendered Narratives in Advertisements (Saida Afef Gardabbou)
		1. Introduction
		2. Gender Narratives Circulating Across Cultures
		3. Challenges Faced by Feminist Translators
		4. Manifestations of Feminist Translation in the Advertising Industry
		5. Conclusion
		References
	Acceptance with a Twist: From Drag Queens to Transgender Persons in U.S and U.K Advertising Campaigns (Eleonora Federici)
		1. Introduction
		2. Transgender Terminology: It’s Complicated
		3. Where Do We Begin? Facts and Numbers
		4. Commercial Advertising Outside the Box
			4.1 Case-study 1. American Apparel (2013)
			4.2 Case-study 2. Clean and Clear “The Story of Jazz” (2013)
			4.3 Case-study 3. Barney – Brothers, Sisters, Sons & Daughters: The Window Campaign (2014)
		5. Transgender goes political
			5.1 Case-study 4. Transgender and Gender Identity Respect Campaign (2012)
		6. Conclusions
		References
Notes on Contributors
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