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Monique Wittig, French writer

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    • Through Parisian Eyes

Monique Wittig (July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author and feminist theorist.

In 1976 Melinda Camber Porter sat with Monique Wittig to discuss her novel Le Corps Lesbien.

 

Monique Wittig, the small, dark-eyed Joan of Arc of the lesbian community, perched on her chair, and in a voice which gradually lost its defensive tone, said, “I could not bear to write anything obscene about a woman's body. Until now men have held the monopoly in describing a woman's body. But their vocabulary is tainted by their attitudes. I felt it was time for women to start writing about their own bodies. In Le Corps Lesbien I tried to use a fresh and untainted vocabulary.”

 
Read the full article "The Lesbian Body Re-Examined." [PDF]
Excerpted From: The Paris Post: 1976.
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