Monique Wittig, “On the Social Contract” (1989), in The Straight Mind (Beacon Press, 1992), 41.
Monique Wittig, “The Category of Sex” (1976/1982), in The Straight Mind, 2.
Monique Wittig, “The Straight Mind” (1980), in The Straight Mind, 32.
Monique Wittig, “The Trojan Horse” (1984), in The Straight Mind, 75.
Quoted in Ilana Eloit, “Lesbian Trouble: Feminism, Heterosexuality and the French Nation (1970–1981)” (PhD diss., London School of Economics, 2018), 239, fig. 40 →.
Quoted in Eloit, “Lesbian Trouble,” 250, fig. 44.
Eloit, “Lesbian Trouble,” 238n.
Eloit, “Lesbian Trouble,” 240.
Sam Bourcier, “Wittig La Politique,” Regards, no. 88 (March 2003): 56–57.
Wittig expressed a visceral antipathy to the notion of écriture féminine and “difference” feminism, prominent currents in French intellectual thought introduced by Hélène Cixous among others.
Sam Bourcier, “Wittig La Politique,” in On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political, and Literary Essays, ed. Namascar Shaktini (University of Illinois Press, 2005), 188.
Rita Smith, “How Trump’s America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women,” Ms., April 28, 2024.
“Violences faites aux femmes: plus de trois victimes de féminicides ou de tentatives par jour en 2023,” Le Monde, November 19, 2024; Alexandra Topping, “‘Epidemic’ of Violence Against Women and Girls in UK Is Getting Worse,” The Guardian, January 30, 2025; UN Women, “Facts and Figures: Ending Violence Against Women,” November 25, 2024.
Shweta Desai, “Gulabi Gang: India’s Women Warriors,” Al-Jazeera, March 4, 2014 →.
Jane’s Revenge, “First Communiqué,” Jane’s Revenge (blog), May 8, 2022 →.
The Mary Nardini Gang, “Trans Ultra-Violence,” trans. Shuli Branson, CAW, April 25, 2025 →.
Shuli Branson, “For a Tranarchist Feminism: Transition as Care and Struggle,” Coils of the Serpent, no. 11 (2023): 32.
See for example Dora Moutot, “The Corruption of French Feminism,” UnHerd, June 27, 2023.
Résistance Lesbienne, “‘Fais un effort pour te souvenir, ou à défaut invente’—Monique Wittig, Les Guérillères,” Facebook, June 26, 2021 →.
Wittig, “The Category of Sex,” 2.
Blase Provitola, “TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre?: Monique Wittig’s Complex Legacy in Trans Studies,” TSQ 9, no. 3 (2022).
Alyson Escalante, “On Women As A Class: Materialist Feminism and Mass Struggle,” Alyesque (blog), Medium, November 22, 2018 →; Alyosxa Tudor, “Im/possibilities of Refusing and Choosing Gender,” Feminist Theory 20, no. 4 (2019).
Jules Joanne Gleeson, “The Call for Gender Abolition: From Materialist Lesbianism to Gay Communism,” Blind Field Journal, July 31, 2017 →.
Kevin Henderson, “Becoming Lesbian: Monique Wittig’s Queer-Trans-Feminism,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 22, no. 2 (2018).
Wittig, “The Category of Sex,” 2.
“Sex is why women are oppressed” appears in myriad TERF online forums, Facebook memes, and publications, including Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality (Oneworld, 2021), 2.
Provitola, “TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre?” 400–1.
Monique Wittig, The Opoponax, trans. Helen Weaver (Daughters, Inc., 1966), 242.
“Across the Acheron,” Publisher’s Weekly, December 1, 1987.
James Douglas Davis, Beautiful War: Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig (Peter Lang, 2010), 121.
Elliot Evans, The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability. (Routledge, 2020), 157–58.
Marthe Rosenfeld, “Language and the Vision of a Lesbian-Feminist Utopiain Wittig’s Les Guérillères,” Frontiers 5, no. 1 (1980): 9.
