Born in France, Wittig begins by writing a series of experimental novels. Her first work, L´Opoponax (1964), which was acclaimed by French and international critics, describes a lesbian relationship between two schoolgirls. His second novel, Les Guérrillères (1969), is a revolutionary text in its form, content, and political aspects. His third novel, Le corps lesbien (1973) leads to a separatist model using figures from Greek mythology, from Sappho's poetry and from ecclesiastical ritual to <> history. His works are not easy to read and its meaning cannot be definitively fixed. A series of essays published by Monique Wittig in the seventies clarify some of her ideas and have been used as a guide for reading her narrative: One Is Not Born a Woman, The Category of Sex, The mark of Gender and especially El heterosexual thinking. These works have become indispensable in the bibliographies of introduction to queer studies.