Namascar Shaktini, Ed., On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political and Literary Essays. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005. ix + 230 pp. Photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $45.00 U.S. (cl). ISBN 0-252-02984-4; $20.00 U.S. (pb). ISBN 0-252-07231-6 [Book review]

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Cybelle McFadden, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate and Graduate Advisor in French (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/

Abstract: Through her activism, writing, and theoretical work, Monique Wittig has both contributed greatworks to the French literary canon and significantly shaped lesbian and feminist theory.Although her first book, L’opoponax, won the Prix Médicis in 1964 and drew critical attentionfrom Marguerite Duras, Wittig pursued her intellectual career in the United States, where shelived for the last twenty years of her life, teaching Women’s Studies and French courses at theUniversity of Arizona. Wittig’s lesbian and feminist theory developed in The Straight Mind(1992) has influenced theories of sex and gender, especially in American academic circles.

Additional Information

Publication
H- France Review 6, review 139.
Language: English
Date: 2006
Keywords
book review, Monique Wittig, lesbian and feminist theory

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