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The Straight Mind

And Other Essays

Author: Monique Wittig

A new Beacon Classics edition of the French novelist Monique Wittig’s radical feminist and queer essay collection

These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first publication of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig. Originally published in 1992, this brief but fierce collection challenges long-held beliefs about biological sex, gender roles, and heterosexuality. Wittig’s feminist critique is notable for its distinctly anti-capitalist angle, as she urges women to recognize themselves not as a gender or sex but as an oppressed and exploited class. Her insistence upon dismantling the very category of “womanhood” and her profound reflections on lesbian identity continue to impact feminist and queer theory today.