The Straight Mind is French literary theorist Monique Wittig's first collection of essays centering on women's struggle for liberation from sexism and classism. These nine essays comprise a thoughtful and unique approach to the study of historical materialism and dialectics, and transverse philosophical, political, and literary theory.
You can read online The Straight Mind and write the review. The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Monique Wittig.. circles Examines Karl Barth’s theology on the binary pairing of “man and woman” as asymmetrically related to each other and to God through the notion of the imago dei, revealing and challenging the ways in which this.
Wittig’s essay collection was published in English in 1992 (The Straight Mind and Other Essays (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992)), bringing together texts previously published in various journals, or delivered at conferences. The essays cast an important light on Wittig’s work as a writer, but also as an activist and radical, material feminist.
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REFERENCE Haug, Frigga. 1992. Beyond female masochism. London: Verso. The Straight Mind and Other Essays. By MONIQUE WITTIG. Foreword by Louise Turcotte. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. Namascar Shaktini The publication by Beacon Press of Monique Wittig's The Straight Mind and Other Essays may be considered an important event for those interested.