Translating Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

This collection offers insights into the transnational and translingual implications of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), a text that has served as foundational for feminisms worldwide since its publication in 1949.

Julia C. Bullock is Professor of Japanese Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of The Other Women's Lib (2010) and Coeds Ruining the Nation (2019); and co-editor of Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (2017) and Translating Feminism (2021). She is currently working on a book provisionally titled Beauvoir in Japan. Pauline Henry-Tierney is Lecturer in French and Translation Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She is Managing Editor of the award-winning international journal, Simone de Beauvoir Studies. Her monograph Translating Transgressive Texts: Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women's Writing in French is forthcoming with Routledge.

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors Acknowledgments A Note on Translation List of Illustrations Introduction JULIA C. BULLOCK AND PAULINE HENRY- TIERNEY PART I: Framing Le Deuxième Sexe: Contexts, Paratexts, and Practice 1 The 1980s Chinese Translations of The Second Sex and Women's Situation in 1980s China: A Post-translation Study Approach ZHONGLI YU 2 Paratextual Elements in Arabic Translations of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe HALA G. SAMI 3 The Process of Translating Le Deuxième Sexe into European Spanish: Challenges and Opportunities MARÍA LUISA RODRÍGUEZ MUNOZ PART II: (Mis)interpreting Beauvoir: Philosophical and Ideological Framing of the Text 4 Goulash Socialism vs. Feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary URSULA HURLEY AND SZILVIA NARAY- DAVEY 5 The Polish Translation of Le Deuxième Sexe in the Hands of the Censorship Office WERONIKA SZWEBS 6 The Controversial Arabic Translations of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe ISABELLE MEHAWEJ 7 Le Deuxième Sexe Censored under Francoism PILAR GODAYOL PART III: Impact: Beauvoir's Legacy for Philosophy and Feminisms Worldwide 8 Erotic Love and Marriage in English Translations of Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe ELLIE ANDERSON 9 Translating in Bad Faith? Articulations of Beauvoir's Existentialist Philosophy in the English Translations of Le Deuxième Sexe PAULINE HENRY- TIERNEY 10 Reclaiming Beauvoir: The Feminist (Re)translation of Le Deuxième Sexe in Japan JULIA C. BULLOCK 11 Untranslatability and Le Deuxième Sexe PENELOPE DEUTSCHER Epilogue: Translating Key Concepts in Le Deuxième Sexe: A Crosslinguistic Discussion EDITED BY JULIA C. BULLOCK AND PAULINE HENRY- TIERNEY Index