As a result, these ostensibly literary essays offer the most cogent statement of her political beliefs and, consequently, the most satisfying reading. The author is at her most elegant in the literary essays, which explicate the complex relationship between literary form and ideology. The book's first half, containing the political essays, is a bit repetitive. Wittig's prose is methodical and aggressive, combative and dense. For women, she concludes, lesbianism is the logical escape from patriarchal domination. In her essay The straight mind, Wittig extends the feminist critique of patriarchy to. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses.'' Drawing on de Beauvoir, Wittig strenuously resists both biological determinism and its twin, essentialism, arguing that sex itself is a social, ergo ideological, construct and that man and woman are not eternal categories. Monique Wittig was a novelist, theorist, and feminist activist. The Straight Mind and Other Essays Monique Wittig. The collection was translated into French as La pense straight in 2001. Half of the nine essays in this brief collection deal directly with the politics of gender, a battlefield on which Wittig has staked out a nearly unique position: ``There is no sex. The Straight Mind and Other Essays is a 1992 collection of essays by Monique Wittig. Wittig ( The Lesbian Body ) is a key figure in French feminism, perhaps the foremost theorist of a profoundly radical lesbianism.
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