Wittig was a central figure in lesbian and feminist movements in France. Wittig earned her PhD from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, after completing a thesis titled "Le Chantier littéraire". Its publication is also considered to be the founding event of French feminism. In 1969 she published what is arguably her most influential work, Les Guérillères, which is today considered a revolutionary and controversial source for feminist and lesbian thinkers around the world. She was one of the founders of the Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF) (Women's Liberation Movement). After the novel was translated into English, Wittig achieved international recognition. In 1964 she published her first novel, L'Opoponax which won her immediate attention in France. In 1950 she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. Monique Wittig was born in 1935 in Dannemarie, Haut-Rhin, France. Her second novel, Les Guérillères (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism. She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964. Her seminal work is titled The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Monique Wittig ( French: J– January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Geoffrey)įrench feminism, Radical feminism, Materialist feminism, Lesbian feminism
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