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By Bonnie Mann,Martina Ferrari

This choice of essays takes up the main well-known feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne naît pas femme: on le devient," discovering in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist considering and motion in a number of dimensions. seeing that its book, the sentence has encouraged feminist pondering and motion in lots of diversified cultural and linguistic contexts. entangled controversies emerge within the lifetime of this sentence: an argument over the perform of translation and an argument over the character and standing of sexual distinction. Variously translated into English as "One isn't born, yet particularly turns into a girl" (Parshley, 1953), "one isn't born yet quite turns into lady" (Borde and Malovany-Chevallier, 2010), and "women are made, no longer born" (in renowned parlance), the clash over the interpretation crystallizes the feminist debate over the chances and barriers of social development as a conception of sexual distinction. whilst Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde (contributors to this volume), translated Le Deuxième Sexe into English in 2010, their choice to change the interpretation of the well-known sentence via omitting the "a" ignited debate that has no longer but exhausted itself. the talk over the English translation has opened a talk approximately translation practices and their relation to which means extra more often than not, and broadens, during this quantity, into an exam of the lifetime of Beauvoir's key sentence in different languages and political and cultural contexts as well.

The philosophers, translators, literary students and historian who writer those essays take decidedly assorted positions at the that means of the sentence in French, and hence on its right translation in numerous languages--but additionally at the that means and salience of the query of sexual distinction because it travels among languages, cultures, and political worlds.

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