Summary Of One Is Not Born A Woman By Wittig
Monique Wittig’s works, The Lesbian Body (1975) and “One is Not Born a Woman” (1980), might seem similar to Cixous’s, in that she engages in a political project designed to create a non-phallogocentric discourse, but she turns to “lesbianization” rather than bisexuality. She posits an opposing model to the heterosexual mode of language that transcends the categories of sex and gender, and she calls it the “lesbianization of language”. She claims that, saying, “lesbian is the only concept I know of which is beyond the categories of sex” (20). For her, the ‘lesbianized language’ serves both men and women to engage in the same space. Expectedly, Bernard Shaw also uses the ‘lesbianized language’ as a tool to enable his females to break free