Gender identities are unstable, shifting constructs; making sense of them means being attentive to social, cultural, political or geographical constraints, to division within languages, to hegemonic territorial strategies. Language and translation have historically been spaces for resistance and assertion of identity.
The translation process, with the choices it involves, can foreground cultural and gender issues by offering scope for strategies that challenge the norms and standards of the prevailing social or political environment. It may equally foreground division within and between languages, and the constructed, sometimes purely imagined representations of the Other.
Translation can also be a way to set underlying binary oppositions in tension and blur the boundaries between sex and gender, between the cultural and the political, but also between creation and reproduction.
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