Les Guérillères

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Summary: profound
Review: Highly motivational and inspiring. It forces you to create worlds inside your head. Profound! Hi Lea.

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Summary: Arrived in three days
Review: I ordered this book Feb. 12th and it was in my mailbox on Feb. 15th. The book is in great condition.

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Summary: Profound, groundbreaking, important.
Review: Published originally in 1963, it was groundbreaking in its exquisite, poetic-stream-of-consciousness use of language (these days oft called "experimental"), its contribution to postmodern theory, feminist thought, utopian literature... really seminal stuff. And so yummy to read. Her vision is of a female (amazonian-like) revolution, a world in which the (patriarchal) strictures of language are dismantled to create something new entirely.

It's a landmark for its contribution, but also as an extraordinary piece of literature in itself. Prose so shining you want to lick it off the page.

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Summary: Profound, Unique, Revolutionary
Review: This book challenges the concept of language and the traditional style of writing. It reads like a long poem and Wittig uses untraditional language to convey a very untraditional story. It leaves you with the feeling that nothing like it has ever been done before and it forces you to create worlds inside your head. I cannot respond sufficiently to this book in words... you MUST read it.

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Summary: warfare
Review: This book is interesting, and perhaps groundbreaking. Unlike the previous reviewer, however, I'm not sure I'd want to call this original feminist text "seminal."

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Summary: Fire circle chants
Review: Through a series of dazzling prose poems, Wittig tells the tale of a tribe of women warriors overthrowing patriarchy, and she challenges gender constructs through her language. It's a powerful and inspirational book about sex warfare, rather like "The Handmaid's Tale" or some songs by Tori Amos. A definite radical feminist classic worth reading and re-reading.