Book, Straight Thinking and other essays, O[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. “Lesbians are not women.” This book brings together political, philosophical and literary texts by Monique Wittig, one of the most important and influential French feminist writers. She argues that the category “sex” is itself political and that heterosexuality is a forced political regime. A materialist feminist theorist, Wittig believed it was necessary to be clear that women are a social class and recognize “woman” and “man” as political and economic categories, which exist because of their relationship with each other. Deepening this idea, she concludes, in the essay that gives the book its title: “Lesbians are not women”. Wittig argued that the expression of one's identity and the liberation of one's desire require the abolition of the categories “man” and “woman”, the destruction of the heterosexual system; Only then can real changes be made.