Lessies

"Kat is a Chicano detective who can fight her way through anything—the U.S. Marine Corps, CIA espionage, California swimming pools, S & M bars, even rape—anything except her passion for the beautiful Angel Stone, a best-selling feminist author certain people are out to destroy..." A thriller from the fabled Daughters Publishing Company. The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing labels this important work as the first "self consciously feminist mystery."

One of the most widely read feminist texts of the twentieth century, and Monique Wittig’s most popular novel, Les Guérillères imagines the attack on the language and bodies of men by a tribe of warrior women. Among the women’s most powerful weapons in their assault is laughter, but they also threaten literary and linguistic customs of the patriarchal order with bullets. In this breathtakingly rapid novel first published in 1969, Wittig animates a lesbian society that invites all women to join their fight, their circle, and their community. A path-breaking novel about creating and sustaining freedom, the book derives much of its energy from its vaunting of the female body as a resource for literary invention. "A delectable epic of sex warfare . . . an extraordinary leap of the imagination into the politics of oppression and revolt." —Mary McCarthy