ABSTRACT
Feminist theorization and activism are the precursors to gender studies. This chapter on gender and audiovisual translation (AVT) therefore begins with an overview of those feminist ideas that entered translation studies from the 1980s onward, and helped develop this new interdiscipline. While feminist theory and criticism first addressed the study of literary translations, a focus that continues to drive research in the field, the application of gender-focused theories to AVT studies has been developing only since the early 2000s. Progress has been slow—particularly if compared with developments in the domains of media and communications studies, which have been producing feminist and/or gender-aware ideas for decades (Carter 2012).
