When Justice Fails: Causes and Consequences of Wrongful Convictions

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explores the interdependent political, linguistic, and erotic registers of lesbian feminism in Monique Wittig＊s novels, querying in particular how they function collectively to destabilize male hegemony and heterosexism. Beginning with the assertion that Wittig expressly dismantles the Classical veneration of
in order to create an agent more capable of social change (
), the author traces the permutations of violence through her four novels,
and
and examines the relevance of brutality to Wittig＊s feminist agenda. Drawing on literary criticism, intellectual and political history, queer theory, and feminist theory in his readings of the primary texts, the author argues that Wittig＊s ?uvre constitutes a progressive textual actualization of paradigm shifts toward gender parity and a permanent banishment of the primacy of male and heterosexist political and sexual discourse.