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Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig was a French author, philosopher, and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract." Her groundbreaking work is titled The Straight Mind and Other Essays. She published her first novel, L'Opoponax, in 1964. Her second novel, Les Guérillères (1969), was a landmark text in the lesbian feminism canon.
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culture · French writer (1935–2003) · essayist · novelist · philosopher · university teacher · writer · activist · feminist · also Monique Wittig, Monique Vitting, Wittig
Born 13 July 1935 · Died 3 January 2003 · Q263201
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I can no more say I am a lesbian writer than I can say I am a woman writer. I am simply a writer. Writing is what is important, not sociological categories. I do think some changes of form are more open to history than others; but working, writing-for the writer-is an individual process, never a collective one.
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Awarded Prix Médicis for L'Opoponax (1964).
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2003· 4 entries
The Independent: Monique Wittig
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Died 2003-01-03.
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“I can no more say I am a lesbian writer than I can say I am a woman writer. I am simply a writer. Writing is what is important, not sociological categories. I do think some changes of form are more open to history than others; but working, writing-for the writer-is an individual process, never a collective one.”
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1976· 1 entry
Wittig and Zeig left France due to certain MLF members who sought to "paralyse and destroy lesbian groups
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1971· 1 entry
Was a founding member of the Gouines rouges ("Red Dykes"), the first lesbian group in Paris
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1969· 2 entries
Five years after Wittig's first novel, revolves around the elles, women warriors who have created their own sovereign state by overthrowing the patriarchal world
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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
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1964· 3 entries
Awarded Prix Médicis for L'Opoponax (1964).
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“A Brilliant Work: L'Opoponax”
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Published her first novel, L'Opoponax which won her immediate attention in France and won the Prix Médicis
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1950· 1 entry
Moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne
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1935· 1 entry
Born 1935-07-13.
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