{"product_id":"beautiful-war-9781433109676","title":"Beautiful War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeautiful War\u003c\/i\u003e explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig's novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that Wittig expressly dismantles the Classical veneration of \u003ci\u003ela belle femme\u003c\/i\u003e in order to create an agent more capable of social change (\u003ci\u003ela femme belliqueuse\u003c\/i\u003e), the author traces the permutations of violence through her four novels, \u003ci\u003eL'Opoponax, Les Guérillères, Le Corps Lesbien,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVirgile, Non\u003c\/i\u003e and examines the relevance of brutality to Wittig's feminist agenda. Drawing on literary criticism, intellectual and political history, queer theory, and feminist theory in his readings of the primary texts, the author argues that Wittig's œuvre constitutes a progressive textual actualization of paradigm shifts toward gender parity and a permanent banishment of the primacy of male and heterosexist politi","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039522914647,"sku":"9781433109676","price":60.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433109676.jpg?v=1750943957","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beautiful-war-9781433109676","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}