{"product_id":"yale-french-studies-number-142-9780300267358","title":"Yale French Studies, Number 142","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eYale French Studies 142\u003c\/em\u003e explores the contemporary relevance of an alternative strand of feminism as theorised by Monique Wittig.\u003c\/b\u003e  \n\nThis volume of \u003cem\u003eYale French Studies\u003c\/em\u003e foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935–2003), a writer who left France to live and teach in the United States, in a diverse range of multidisciplinary conversations—in literary studies, history, and gender and sexuality studies—to demonstrate how Wittig’s theoretical and literary work remains an indispensable resource for thinking and creating in the twenty-first century.  \n\nEditors Morgane Cadieu and Annabel L. Kim flip the “materialist lesbianism” that Wittig’s collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Straight Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, centres and describes as being the core of Wittig’s work to deal instead with “lesbian materialism,” thereby making \"lesbian\" the method and \"materialism\" the object, and allowing Wittig’s work to realise its full range. The volume re-interrogates the official historiography of French materialist feminism; expands the intellectual framework within which Wittig’s work is usually considered; insists on the language-centric materialism that emerges from Wittig’s writing as a way of joining the political with the literary; and attends to the way this literary material inspires material responses and creations within the plastic arts.  \n\nUnderlying the entire volume is a keen sense of the materiality of Wittig’s archives, housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, as a site of lesbian thought in Wittig’s radical sense of the term: a fugitive positionality.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464791113964,"sku":"9780300267358","price":131.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300267358-yale-french-studies-number-142.jpg?v=1775055355","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/yale-french-studies-number-142-9780300267358","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}