One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets. In this breathtakingly rapid novel first published in 1969, Wittig animates a lesbian society that invites all women to join their fight, their circle, and their community. A path-breaking novel about creating and sustaining freedom, the book derives much of its energy from its vaunting of the female body as a resource for literary invention.

Les Guerilleres

Literature & Fiction

Wittig, Monique

Literary

University of Illinois Press

A landmark of lesbian fiction, The Guérillères is about a war of the sexes, where women "engage in bloody, victorious battles using knives, machine guns and rocket launchers." Moreover, sympathetic males join them in their combat.

The Guerilleres

LGBTQ+ Books

Picador

Bard

The lesbian body

From back cover: "A world without men - where men have never been, will never be - drives two lovers beyond the earthly limits of passion to dicover the depest pleasures of the senses in the bottomless cave of hell."

The Lesbian Body

Avon/Books

Les Guerilleres is the extraordinary novel by the legendary lesbian Feminist writer, Monique Wittig, making its first appearance in English since the 1970s. It is a story of a war of the sexes, where women engage in bloody, victorious battles using knives, machine guns and rocket launchers, even inducing overawed males to join them in the a realignment of the balance between the sexes on Earth. The first and probably only epic of sex warfare, Wittig suggests an exotic barbarian beauty of the untamed female in her natural state in a surreal, Olympian story with strong overtones of Homer and Tolkein.

VIKING

Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships. "That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level." â€”The Boston Globe

Morrow

Wittig describes an extraordinary journey through the infernal regions towards a paradisaical land. Angels ride motorcycles, and cruelty and suffering are unknown on the other side of the Acheron, the legendary river of sorrows. Wittig reveals her poetic, sometimes humorous story in a vivid and highly individual style, creating a kaleidoscopic mixture of the mythological and the modern. Across The Acheron confirmed Wittigâ€™s position as one of Franceâ€™s most original and gifted writers of the 20th century.

Across the Acheron

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

Peter Owen Publishers

Wittig describes an extraordinary journey through the infernal regions towards a paradisaical land. Angels ride motorcycles, and cruelty and suffering are unknown on the other side of the Acheron, the legendary river of sorrows. Wittig reveals her poetic, sometimes humorous story in a vivid and highly individual style, creating a kaleidoscopic mixture of the mythological and the modern. Across The Acheron confirmed Wittig’s position as one of France’s most original and gifted writers of the 20th century.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

A collection of theoretical writings by Monique Wittig, described as one of the most important and influential contemporary French feminist writers. Covering feminist theory, politics, language and literature, Wittig argues that the category of sex is itself a political one and that heterosexuality is a trap, a forced political regime. She proposes that there cannot any longer be women and men, and that as classes and as categories of thought or language have to disappear, politically, economically and ideologically. Taking this idea further, the title essay ends with the conclusion: "lesbians are not women".

"The Straight Mind" and Other Essays

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pearson Professional Education

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Les Guerilleres

The Guerilleres

Les Guerilleres

The Lesbian Body

Les Guerilleres

The lesbian body

Across the Acheron

The Guerilleres

Across the Acheron

"The Straight Mind" and Other Essays