These essays represent the radical extension of de Beauvoir's theory, its unexpected lesbian future.
The wonderful image of the role of literature as a Trojan horse is a gem of clarity and wit." -Germaine Brée "At last it will be possible to have easy access to these provocative and important essays." -Elaine Marks, University of Wisconsin, editor of New French Feminisms, "Among the most provocative and compelling feminist political visions since The Second Sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses.''.As a result, these ostensibly literary essays offer the most cogent statement of her political beliefs and, consequently, the most satisfying reading." -Publishers Weekly "Wittig most brilliantly analyzes certain transformations in the textures and structures of literary language. Half of the nine essays in this brief collection deal directly with the politics of gender, a battlefield on which Wittig has staked out a nearly unique position: "There is no sex. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title."Wittig ( The Lesbian Body ) is a key figure in French feminism, perhaps the foremost theorist of a profoundly radical lesbianism.
From 500 Great Books by Women review by Heather Downey For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. Only by transforming our thought processes, and in turn, our language, can we transform our society into one in which there is no longer the dominant and the dominated: "In other words, this means there cannot any longer be women and men, and that as classes and categories of thought or language they have to disappear, politically, economically, ideologically." Controversial and abstract, these are essays that challenge and provoke on both intellectual and emotional levels. Sexism will continue to exist even in a society where all people have equal economic opportunities. It is not enough, she argues, to transform economic oppression because not all oppression is, at the source, economic. "Lesbians are not women," writes Monique Wittig, and she presents powerful ideas about how the idea of "woman" is socially constructed and used to convey certain images.
Monique Wittig describes this collection as a focus on "lesbian materialism," in which she examines men and women as distinct classes rather than as "essentialist" categories. These nine essays comprise a thoughtful and unique approach to the study of historical materialism and dialectics, and transverse philosophical, political, and literary theory. The Straight Mind is French literary theorist Monique Wittig's first collection of essays centering on women's struggle for liberation from sexism and classism.
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