![]() ![]() Recalling Wittig’s project and practice of lexical disidentification, by which gender and other signs of identity are ruptured and reworked, this special issue of GLQ offers a variety of often conflicting views on Wittig’s aesthetic, political, and theoretical work.Ĭontributors provide critical and disparate snapshots-some more theoretical and abstract, some more experiential and concrete-of debates on, and investments in, Wittig’s theoretical legacy. ![]() Wittig’s mise en question of the notion of “woman”-a term she argued was necessarily enmeshed in heterosexual and patriarchal systems of knowing-unsettled seemingly self-evident relationships between language and reality, signification and subjectivity, and even, if not especially, women and feminism. “Lesbians are not women.” This (in)famous statement by renowned theorist, writer, and activist Monique Wittig marked a watershed moment in critical understandings of gender and sexuality. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies.Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services. ![]()
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