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Monique Wittig

    July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003

    Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist particularly interested in overcoming gender and the heterosexual contract. Her work delves into the radical rewriting of social norms and language to forge new possibilities for female identities and relationships outside of patriarchal structures. Wittig challenges readers to reconsider fundamental assumptions about sex and sexuality through her innovative and often provocative prose.

    Monique Wittig
    Die Verschwörung der Balkis / "Les guérillères"
    Lesbische Völker
    Das straighte Denken
    L'opoponax
    The Lesbian Body
    The Straight Mind
    • 1992

      These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.

      The Straight Mind
    • 1986

      Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships."That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level."—The Boston Globe

      The Lesbian Body