Sexual Perversion as Textual Resistance in the Works of Rachilde and Monique Wittig

This chapter examines some of the ways in which the discourses of female sexuality that are enshrined in foundational modern European sexology and psychoanalysis are cited, perverted and resisted by two very different French female writers: the Decadent novelist Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, 1860-1953) and the separatist lesbian feminist Monique Wittig (1935–2003). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.