Toronto Women's Bookstore
http://www.womensbookstore.com
416-922-8744

The Toronto Women’s Bookstore presents :

A Tribute to Monique Wittig (1935-2003)

and a booklaunch for :

On Monique Wittig: Theoretical, Political, And Literary Essays (U. of Illinois Press)
edited by Namascar Shaktini

FRIDAY, MAY 13th 2005 6:30 p.m
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord Street (Harbord and Spadina)
Free, all are welcome to attend, wheelchair accessible

Monique Wittig was the co-founder of the M.L.F. (Women's Liberation Movement) in France, and Author of Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body, etc.

The evening will feature readings by Dominique Bourque (University of Ottawa), Namascar Shaktini (Florida Atlantic University), and Jeannelle Laillou Savona (University of Toronto): co-authors. With testimonies by Julia Creet (York University), Catherine Phillips (University of Toronto), Clive Thomson (University of Western Ontario), and several others.

Besides twelve critical essays, On Monique Wittig contains Wittig's own remarks on Les Guérillères and The Lesbian Body, as well as the first translation of the French Manifesto of the Women's Liberation Movement (1970).

This evening is supported by the French Department (University of Toronto), the Sexual Diversity Studies Program at University College (University of Toronto), and the Department of Languages and Linguistics (Florida Atlantic University).

For more information contact Anjula Gogia at phone number 416-922-8744, by email at anjula@womensbookstore.com or online at www.womensbookstore.com