EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Simone De Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Andrea Dworkin
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Reading one is not born a woman" by monique wittig jan 31. By its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact that constituting women as a natural group". A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one and shows that we have been ideologically rebuilt into a natural group". We have been compelled in our bodies and in our minds to correspond, feature by feature, with the idea of nature that has been established for us. Distorted to such an extent that our deformed body is what they call natural", what is supposed to exist as such before oppression. Distorted to such an extent that in the end oppression seems to be a consequence of this nature" within ourselves (a natural which is only an idea).
