Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900: Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of K?the Schirmacher [Hardcover]

This open access book takes the biographical case of German feminist K?the Schirmacher (18651930), a multilingual translator, widely travelled writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a disputatious activist to examine the travel and translation of ideas between the womens movements that emerged in many countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. It discusses practices such as translating, interpreting, and excerpting from journals and books that spawned and supported transnational civic spaces and develops a theoretical framework to analyse these practices. It examines translations of literary, scholarly and political texts and their contexts. The book will be of interest to academics as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of modern history, womens and gender history, cultural studies, transnational and transfer history, translation studies, history and theory of biography.

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Biographical Case Study of Transnational Practices of Transfer.- Chapter 2: To Become a Translator.- Chapter 3: 'Men, Women and Progress'.- Chapter 4: To America!.- Chapter 5: Letters from Paris: Letters from Germany.- Chapter 6: Trans/national Encounters: Winter Travels Through Europe.- Chapter 7: 'The Modern Womens Rights Movement.- Chapter 8: 'As Interpreter for This Convention, I Feel That I Must Not Continue My Office': London 1909.- Chapter 9: 'Suffragettes in Germany': Translating Militancy.- Chapter 10: When Translation Ends.

Johanna Gehmacher is Professor of Modern and Gender History at the University of Vienna, Austria.

How did feminist ideas travel in an age of growing nationalism, imperial powerplay and entrenched inequalities? Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation brilliantly foregrounds the work done by translation, focusing on the first generation of university-educated women.lS