Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism Volume 13

by Jonathan Ned Katz

Book Overview

"Lesbians are not women." This (in)famous statement by renowned theorist, writer, and activist Monique Wittig marked a watershed moment in critical understandings of gender and sexuality. Wittig's mise en question of the notion of "woman"--a term she argued was necessarily enmeshed in heterosexual and patriarchal systems of knowing--unsettled seemingly self-evident relationships between language and reality, signification and subjectivity, and even,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822366819
• ISBN13: 9780822366812
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.9" x 9.7"