Monique Wittig
A biographical and reading guide to Monique Wittig, with a route back to the historical list that brought this profile into view.
Life: 1935–2003 · Deceased
About the author
Monique Wittig was a French novelist, theorist, and activist whose writing challenged the categories through which language organizes gender and social life. Her fiction experiments with form as well as argument, asking readers to experience how inherited grammar can be unsettled. The Opoponax, Les Guérillères, and The Lesbian Body form a striking path through her literary work; essays and political writing extend that inquiry.
Selected books & writing
A curated path into the work; titles shown reflect available editions and selected writing, not an exhaustive bibliography.
The Opoponax
Find editions at Amazon →The Lesbian Body
Find editions at Amazon →Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary (with Sande Zeig)
Find editions at Amazon →Across the Acheron
Find editions at Amazon →Paris-la-politique et autres histoires
Find editions at Amazon →The Straight Mind and Other Essays
Find editions at Amazon →Sources & further reading
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