At the time of her death she was Professor of French and Womenʼs Studies at the University of Arizona. She moved to the United States in the mid-1970s and held a number of teaching positions in different institutions, including the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, Duke University and Vassar College. Wittig met her lifelong partner Sande Zeig in Paris in 1975, while both were becoming involved in the French womenʼs liberation movement. She received her doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. After a country childhood, Wittig moved with her family to Paris, where she attended university and worked in publishing. Wittig was born in Dannemarie, on the Upper Rhine in France on 13 July 1935. Monique Wittig, who has died aged 67, was one of the most provocative and innovative of lesbian feminist thinkers of the twentieth century. Radical inventions Monique Wittig, 1935–2003ʻBut remember.
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