Its unorthodox, minimally punctuated, and nonchronological narrative established Wittig’s course as a writer. Her first novel, L’Opoponax (1964 The Opoponax), is an examination of childhood experiences viewed through the consciousness of a rebellious young girl in a convent school. Wittig attended the Sorbonne and immigrated to the United States in 1976.
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The author is at her most elegant in the literary essays, which explicate the complex relationship between literary form and ideology. The book's first half, containing the political essays, is a bit repetitive. Wittig's prose is methodical and aggressive, combative and dense. For women, she concludes, lesbianism is the logical escape from patriarchal domination. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses.'' Drawing on de Beauvoir, Wittig strenuously resists both biological determinism and its twin, essentialism, arguing that sex itself is a social, ergo ideological, construct and that man and woman are not eternal categories.
Half of the nine essays in this brief collection deal directly with the politics of gender, a battlefield on which Wittig has staked out a nearly unique position: ``There is no sex. Wittig ( The Lesbian Body ) is a key figure in French feminism, perhaps the foremost theorist of a profoundly radical lesbianism.
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