Translating Women in the Anglosphere: Activism in Action

The international conference Translating Women: Breaking Borders and Building Bridges in the English-language Book Industry is one of the latest events to enter the chronology of the Women in Translation movement. On 31 October and 1 November 2019, over 70 academics, translators and activists from four continents came together at the Institute of Modern Languages Research in London (UK), to discuss the barriers facing women in translation in the English-language book market from commission and promotion through to representation and reception, and to consider ways in which these could be challenged. The shared aims were to break through ‘borders’ –both real and figurative– and to build ‘bridges’ between research areas and industry initiatives. This research ebook brings together seven contributions from the conference that collectively denounce the biases that silence women or relegate them to a sphere that has already been picked for them, and offer positive models for lasting change.