The Straight Mind: And Other Essays
A Feminism, Nonfiction, Glbt book. A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority...
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- Pages: 132 pages
- ISBN: 9780807079171 / 807079170
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A text by a minority writer is effective only if it succeeds in making the minority point of view universal. ('The Universal and the Particular')" ... In claiming the lesbian point of view as universal, she overturns the concepts to which we are accustomed. For up to this point, minority writers had to add "the universal" to their points of view if they wished to attain the unquestioned universality of the dominant class. Gay men, for example, have always defined themselves as a minority and never questioned, despite their transgression, the dominant...
wittig is brilliant. this is one of a handful of feminist texts that radically changed the way i saw the world. anyone lesbian feminism