The Straight Mind and Other Essays

The Straight Mind and Other Essays

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author = Monique Wittig
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country = United States
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publisher = Beacon Press
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The Straight Mind and Other Essays is a (1992) collection of essays by Monique Wittig.

It was translated into French as "La Pensée straight" in 2001 [Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 424] .

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"One Is Not Born a Woman," follows in the wake of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist political visions [Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 438] . Wittig writes, 'Lesbians are not women', under the assumption that the term 'woman' is defined by men [Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 425] . Moreover, she compares lesbian to fugitive slaves [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5DA1731F931A25752C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22The+Straight+Mind%22&st=nyt Monique Wittig, 67, Feminist Writer, Dies, by Douglas Martin, January 12, 2003, New York Times] ]

"The Trojan Horse," explains her theory of literature as a "war machine" [Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 442] , echoing Gilles Deleuze [Alice Jardine, 'Thinking Wittig's Differences; "Or, Failing That, Invent"', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 459] .

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