女性主义一词最早出现在法国,泛指女性有关争取与男性同等的社会权利的主张,后传到英美,逐渐流行起来。女性主义翻译理论是在20世纪80年代初期翻译研究的“文化转向”大潮中兴起的一派译论,它以其鲜明的女性主义政治诉求在众多的翻译理论中脱颖而出; The term feminism first appeared in France, referring generally to women's claim of gaining equal social rights with men, which later spread to the United States and Britain and gained popularity. Feminist translation theory is a school of translation theory that emerged in the tide of “cultural shift ” of translation studies in the early 1980s. With its distinctive feminist political appeal, feminist translation theory has stood out in numerous translation theories.