45 definitions
Desire (n.) if it could liberate itself would have nothing to do with the preliminary marking by sexes.
The Female (n.) is not born but made — and one can, if one chooses, become neither female nor male.
Feminine writing (n.) does not exist; the idea recirculates the very myth of the feminine.
Gender (n.) is singular — there is only one, the feminine; the masculine is not a gender but the general.
Gender (n.) say the grammarians half-joking is a "fictive sex" — a primitive ontological concept that divides beings into sexes within language itself.
The Heterosexual matrix (n.) is the only place male and female exist — the naturalized terms that keep it concealed and protected from critique.
Homosexuality (n.) when thought by the straight mind is nothing but heterosexuality.
Intuition (n.) is politically cultivated — exactly what Wittig sets out to expose.
Inversion (n.) for Wittig becomes a reading practice: valorising exactly the undeveloped, diffuse sexuality Freud ranked below genital maturity — a post-genital politics.
Language (n.) is not misogynist in its structures, only in its applications — an instrument, another order of materiality that collective choice can transform.
Language (n.) casts sheaves of reality upon the social body — stamping it and violently shaping it.
A Lesbian (n.) is not a woman: “woman” exists only in an oppositional relation to man, and the lesbian, refusing that relation, has no sex at all.