Source — Wikipedia, "Luise von Flotow"
- Title: Luise von Flotow
- Publication: Wikipedia
- URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise_von_Flotow
- Type: tertiary — neutral encyclopedic stance; unauthored/crowd-edited.
- Accessed: 2026-08-30
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- Von Flotow is a Full Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Ottawa; she joined in 1996 as a postdoctoral fellow/lecturer, became full professor in 2006, and directed the university's School of Translation and Interpretation.
- Her foundational book is Translation and Gender: Translating in the "Era of Feminism" (1997). Reviewer Eva C. Karpinski (quoted on this page) describes it as unfolding "a complex argument about the revolutionary impact of gender on translation practice, history, and theory over the last thirty years."
- Her 1991 essay (in the journal TTR) is titled "Feminist Translation: Contexts, Practices and Theories" — the article that first laid out the strategy taxonomy the wiki page this source feeds discusses (see the miguelhuang18-blog and literariness.org sources for the strategies themselves; this Wikipedia page names the essay but does not itself define the strategies).
- Von Flotow is described as a founding figure of feminist translation studies, with later work extending into queer approaches to translation and transnational dialogue.
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- This page does not itself define "supplementing," "prefacing and footnoting," or "hijacking" — those definitions are drawn from other sources (see "Used in" page for citations).
- Not checked against a primary reading of Translation and Gender or the 1991 TTR essay.