164 MONIQUE WITTIG THE STRAIGHT MIND 165 between the in a concert of interdisciplinarity, never more harmonious than since the heterosexual myths ther. like sure values that can be es affects all the concepts which are part of the same conglomerate. Bu invested, in anthropology as well as in psychoanalysis and in all the social sciences no such thing man or being-man, "Man"an ula which have-becen-slavery"is the dynamic which introduces the diachronism of history into the n F politically studied from within the science of our oppre same time. the and abolish men and with this sorrow that we have manifesto, of language/action, that which transforms, that which makes history other words, for us and universal th any longer omen and men, and tracted from them, laws that could be stuffed into computers, and in any case for the moment If politic angsre strumental are that an economic and political transformation will violent and brutal a way that the whole system, which was believed to be formal, topl into another dimension of knowledge. This dimension belongs to ce somehow we designated, and since, as Levi-Strauss said, we talk, will not su So, this is what lesbians say everywhere in this country and in some others, if that of language, and language is we ain by these strategic concepts. It is ety are still unenvisionable. An anthro de perspective, and it would be incorrect to say that lesbians associate, make love, live with ocial groups can no longer appear as a logical necessity to the dominated, because they revolt, women, for"woman"has meaning only in heterosexual systems of thought and heterosexual ecause they question the differences, Levi-Strauss, Lacan and their epigones call upon coessities which escape the control of consciousness and therefore th responsibility of Notes e, which require the excha nge of wome This text was first read in New York at the Modern Language Association Convention in 1978 and no society, depends on it. But what does women being exchanged mean if not that they ar political power without mastery of the art of dominated? No wonder then that there is only 3 Throughout this paper when Lacan's use of the term"the conscious"i referred to it is capitalized, 4 For example see Karla Jay, Allen Young, eds, Out of che Clouets(New York: Links Books, 1972) there is no slavery of women, there is difference. To which I will answer with this a ade eeting in 1848: Why do the gentlemen say it have been slavery, this sorrow that we have sorrowed. "Yes, be taken away fro definition of"social sex"Nicole-Claude Mathieu, "Notes pour une definition sociologique own the"what goes-without-saying"heterosexual pm山甲mk efal Sex Category in Soclology (pamphlet), Explorations 如Dnb 9 In pe Materialist Simmc dr et la lutte des femmes, suddenl nerged through the dominated individu II Are the millons of dollars a year made by the psychoanalysts symbolic? women, who started their struggle almost two centuries ago. And it has bee, particularly through ork: Hill and Wang, 1972),p. 13 No more is any woman who is not in a relation of personal dependency with a