Monique Wittig (July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author and f
Monique Wittig (July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase “heterosexual contract”. She published her first novel, L’Opoponax, in 1964. Her second novel, Les GuГ©rillГЁres (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism.