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Lesbian materialism : the life and work of Monique Wittig.

This volume of Yale French Studies foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935–2003), a writer who left France to live and teach in the United States, in a diverse range of multidisciplinary conversations, in literary studies, history and gender and sexuality studies, to demonstrate how Wittig’s theoretical an...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023].
Series:Yale French studies ; no. 142.
Subjects:
Wittig, Monique.
Wittig, Monique > Criticism and interpretation.
Lesbianism.
Lesbians in literature.
Feminism and literature > France.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Preface: Lesbian Materialism in the Life and Work of Monique Wittig
  • This Whispering Skeleton
  • Le Corps lesbian: Material without Abjection
  • Monique Wittig's One-Dimensional Man: Translation Work and Post-'68 Feminist Utopian Thought
  • Interlude I
  • Lesbian Paradoxes to Offer: French Heterofeminisim and the Erased history of Monique Wittig's Exile to the United States
  • The Cishetero Mind, or Monique Wittig's Queer and Transgender Lesbianism
  • A biography for Monique Wittig
  • Interlude II
  • No Biography for Dead Women
  • Monique Wittig's "Reading Worksites"
  • Wittig's Way: The Constant Journey
  • Interlude III
  • Afterword: Lesbian Atomism.