Translating international gender-equality institutional/legal texts

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ID12898016
AuthorsJosé Santaemilia (0000-0002-2845-5483, Universitat de València, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume7
Issue1
Pages75-94
Publication date2013-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender and Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-6321 • E-ISSN: 1747-633X
PublisherEquinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/genl.v7i1.75
OpenAlexW1983386161
LanguageEN
Citations received2

Drafting international institutional/legal texts is one of the most delicate instances of social writing, as it affects our lives at personal, social and collective levels. In an era in which full equality between the sexes is promoted, international legislative and political bodies are especially encouraged to remove any traces of racial, ethnic or sexual discrimination. In this paper my primary aim is to analyse how international gender-equality texts – carefully worded and crafted in English – are translated into Spanish, one of the world’s leading languages and one of the main doors to (international) effective gender equality. Gender-equality institutional texts are highly sensitive, and their translation is not simply a linguistic matter, but rather a socio-cultural and ideological issue. The Spanish versions may be the result, on the one hand, of ideological negotiation and compromise, and on the other hand, of personal struggle to come to terms with the meaning of gender equality. Translating international gender-equality texts is a privileged site to test the various meanings of gender across cultures

Compromise · Ethnic group · Gender equality · Ideology · Legislature · Meaning (existential · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Social science · Sociology · Discrimination and Equality Law · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Legal Language and Interpretation · Psychology

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