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Looking at those two changes, it seems to me that your translation has a feminist function, whether it’s intentional or not. I think the bar should be higher for feminist translation. There are people whose project that is.
It was also a time marked by the acquisition of wealth and the perceived decay of public morals, when the country's chief aim had become getting rich-"Dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must," in the words of Mark Twain. His 1873 novel The Gilded Age, co-written with Charles Dudley Warner, would lend its title to the era, yet that name, which has acquired a glow over time, was intended not as praise but as insult. It sug-gested a veneer of wealth that masked a worthless interior. Others called this period of American postwar affluence-without-culture by another pejorative: the Reign of Shoddy.