Source — Miguel Huang (blog), "Luise von Flotow — Feminist Translation: Contexts, Practices and Theories"

Title: Luise von Flotow – Feminist Translation: Contexts, Practices and Theories
Publication: miguelhuang18.wordpress.com (personal course-notes blog)
URL: https://miguelhuang18.wordpress.com/2016/02/23/luise-von-flotow-feminst-translation-contexts-practices-and-theories/
Date of post: 2016-02-23
Type: tertiary and thin — a personal student/course-notes blog summarizing von Flotow's 1991 TTR article of the same name; useful here only for its direct quotations of that article and of Godard, not for independent analysis.
Accessed: 2026-08-30

Extract

Restates von Flotow's three feminist-translation strategies (supplementing; prefacing and footnoting; hijacking — the fuller definitions of the first and third are filed on this project's wiki page from other sources).
Quotes Godard, via von Flotow, on prefacing/footnoting as a site where "the feminist translator seeks to flaunt her signature in italics, in footnotes, and in prefaces."
Gives concrete examples of hijacking from Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood's translation of Lettres d'une autre: changing male-generic terms to feminine or neutral forms (e.g. rendering "the men's victory" as "our victory"), rendering a generic Québécois populace as feminine "Québécoises," and reordering paired gendered terms to put the feminine term first ("women and men," "her or his").
States that von Flotow frames these strategies as making "the presence of the translator visible" and developing "gender-conscious language."

This is a low-authority secondary source (a course blog, not a scholarly publication) — its quotations of von Flotow and Godard are not independently checked against von Flotow's 1991 article or Godard's own writing.
No bibliographic detail (page numbers, publisher) for the Lotbinière-Harwood translation example is given.