Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation

by Emek Ergun

The Turkish-language release of Hanne Blank's Virgin: The Untouched History is a politically engaged translation aimed at disrupting Turkey's heteropatriarchal virginity codes. In Virgin Crossing Borders, Emek Ergun maps how she crafted her rendering of the text and draws on her experience and the book's impact to investigate the interventionist power of feminist translation.

Ergun's comparative framework reveals translation's potential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252087089
• ISBN13: 9780252087080
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 278 Pages