Description
Women have been represented in art, literature, music, and more for decades, with the image of the woman changing through time and across cultures. However, rarely has a multidisciplinary approach been taken to examine this imagery and challenge and possibly reinterpret old women-related myths and other taken-for-granted aspects (e.g., grammatically inclusive gender). Moreover, this approach can better place the ideologies as myth creators and propagators, identify and deconstruct stereotypes and prejudices, and compare them across cultures with the view to spot universal vs. culturally specific approaches as far as women's studies and interpretations are concerned. It is important to gather these perspectives to translate and unveil new interpretations to old ideas about women and the feminine that are universally accepted as absolute, impossible to challenge, and invalidated truths.
The Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery Across Disciplines is a comprehensive reference book that provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective on the perception and reception of women across time and space. It tackles various perspectives: gender studies, linguistic studies, literature and cultural studies, discourse analysis, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etc. Its main objective is to present new approaches and propose new answers to old questions related to gender inequalities, stereotypes, and prejudices about women and their place in the world. Covering significant themes that include the ethics of embodiment, myth of motherhood at the crossroad of ideologies, translation of women’s experiences and ideas across cultures, and discourses on women’s rehabilitation and dignification across centuries, this book is critical for linguists, professionals, researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and literature, as well as other related categories such as political studies, education studies, philosophy, and the social sciences.
Reviews and Testimonials
The Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery across Disciplines takes a multidisciplinary stance and aims at reflecting a fruitful dialogue among various disciplines that may contribute to open up a wider and more comprehensive framework of analysis of the multi-layered and intricate presence of the Feminine in the world and its interpretations across time and space.
– Roxana Ciolaneanu, Researcher, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Author's/Editor's Biography
Roxana Ciolăneanu (Ed.)
Roxana Ciolăneanu teaches translation and Romanian as a foreign language at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where she also holds a research position with the Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests mainly lie in cognitive semantics, sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation, and terminology. She has published various articles and studies in line with her research activity and co-edited several collective volumes, the most recent ones being Building Cultural Bridges in the Translation of Irony and Humour (2024) and Translation and Cultural Mediation. Myths, Legends and Fairytales in Romania and across the World (2020).
Roxana-Elisabeta Marinescu (Ed.)
Roxana Elisabeta Marinescu is a Professor with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania, with main research interests and publications in feminism and gender issues, democratic citizenship, education for intercultural and plurilingual communication, postcolonial and postcommunist studies. Dr. Marinescu has authored four books on cultural and literary studies: Salman Rushdie and Multiple Identities (2013), Northern Ireland. Border Country (2013), Self-Constructs of Identity: The Case of Northern Ireland (2012) and Violated Bodies. A Cross-Cultural Reading by Writers of South-Asian Origin (2009), and co-edited three: Handbook of Research on Translating Myth and Reality in Women Imagery across Disciplines (2020), Comunicare 4.0. Tratat de comunicare în afaceri internaționale (2019) and Learning Is Fun. Teaching Methodology for Plurilingual Education and a Balanced Life (2017). Also, she has published chapters in 15 collective volumes, and over sixty articles in international academic journals. For over 25 years Dr. Marinescu was a member of the Non-governmental organization AnA Society for Feminist Analyses and the President of the organization between 2018 and 2020. In this capacity, she participated in and coordinated academic projects and community work in the areas of feminism, gender issues and women’s empowerment. She continues to constantly engage with Romanian and international civil society and conduct awareness-raising, tutoring and mentoring, as well as educational work in the areas of gender equality and equity, feminism and education for democratic citizenship. Dr. Marinescu is currently the Coordinator of the Committee for Gender Equality, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Bucharest University for Economic Studies, Romania.