Les Guérillères: A Novel
Monique Wittig, David Le Vay (translation)From the back cover: “Originally published in France in 1969, Les Guérillères is one of the most widely read & frequently cited feminist novels of our time. Depicting the overthrow of the old order by a tribe of warrior women, this epic celebration proclaims the destruction of patriarchal institutions & language & the birth of a new feminist order.”
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Monique Wittig was born in 1935 in Dannemarie, Haut-Rhin, France. In 1950 she moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne. In 1964 she published her first novel, L'Opoponax which won her immediate attention in France. After the novel was translated into English, Wittig achieved international recognition. She was one of the founders of the Mouvement de libération des femmes (MLF) (Women's Liberation Movement). In 1969 she published what is arguably her most influential work, Les Guérillères, which is today considered a revolutionary & controversial source for feminist & lesbian thinkers around the world. Its publication is also considered to be the founding event of French feminism.