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A Literature Review and Evaluation of Feminist Translation 　　【Abstract】The development of feminism is very meaningful to all areas of the society including politics， cultures and languages and the feminism theories contribute greatly to translation studies. There are different schools with different feminist translation theories and different approaches. This paper aims to do a literature review of some famous works of feminism translation theories. Besides， an evaluation of these theories and approaches will be provided in terms of their advantage and shortage. 　　【Key words】feminism； translation theories； evaluation 　　1. Feminism and translation studies 　　Feminismis originated from America and the first feminist movement started at the end of 19 century. The purpose of the first movement was to achieve the equality of men and women and it mainly focus on women’s political right， such as property right， the right to vote and to be elected and the right to education. In the 70s of 20 century， the second feminist movement began because they realized that the unfairness of gender exists not only in the political area but also in the cultural area. They aimed at eliminating the sexual discrimination in languages and emphasized the peculiarity of women and proposed ?women抯 liberation must first be a liberation of/from language? Thusexi， new standards of reading， writing and translation from female views were formed and the feminists tried to destruct the traditional translation theories， which were part of the so-called “ cultural turn”. 　　The encounter of feminism and translation was not an accident because they share something in common. In the history， Female were always at the margin of the patriarchy society. Translation， just as the position of female， has been regarded as the appendant of the source text and the relationship between the author and the translator was defined as “master and servant”. The longterm marginalization of translator， translation a