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''The Straight Mind and Other Essays'' is a (1992) collection of essays by Monique Wittig. It was translated into French as ''La Pensée straight'' in 2001.〔Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', ''Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism'', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 424〕 ==Summary== Wittig delivered the titular essay in April 1979 at Barnard College's The Scholar and the Feminist Conference, The Future of Difference, as the morning keynote.〔The Scholar and The Feminist Online http://sfonline.barnard.edu/sfxxx/sf06.htm, lois a. west, “French Feminist Theorists & Psychoanalytic Theory,” Off Our Backs 9, no. 7 (July 1, 1979): 4–23, doi:10.2307/25773119.〕 The essay appeared in French in ''Question Feministe'', where the editorial collective, which included Wittig, splintered over "the lesbian question" leading to a dissolution of the collective and end to the publication.〔Namascar Shaktini, ed. On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political, And Literary Essays (University of Illinois Press, 2005), 9.〕 It also appeared in English in ''Feminist Issues''〔"The Straight Mind.' Feminist Issues 1. no. 1 (Summer 1980): 108-111.〕 "One Is Not Born a Woman," delivered in September 1979 at the 30th Anniversary Conference of the Second Sex held at New York University, takes up the outcomes of Simone de Beauvoir's feminist political visions for lesbians.〔Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', ''Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism'', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 438〕 Wittig writes, 'Lesbians are not women', under the assumption that the term 'woman' is defined by men.〔Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', ''Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism'', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 425〕 Moreover, she compares lesbians to fugitive slaves.〔(Monique Wittig, 67, Feminist Writer, Dies, by Douglas Martin, January 12, 2003, New York Times )〕 "The Trojan Horse," explains her theory of literature as a "war machine",〔Brad Epps and Jonathan Katz, 'Monique Wittig's Materialist Utopia and Radical Critique', ''Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism'', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 442〕 echoing Gilles Deleuze.〔Alice Jardine, 'Thinking Wittig's Differences; "Or, Failing That, Invent"', ''Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism'', GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 459〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Straight Mind and Other Essays」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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