One Is Born A Woman

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she analyzes the definition of what a woman is, and tries to move away from the notion of naturalness in women. She concedes there is no naturalness in male or female, rather the notion of sex is a gross misrepresentation created by the social milieu. Subsequently she argues for a type of class uprising to free "women" from this oppressive label, and likens it to the Marxist idea of the proletariat rebellion against the bourgeois class. Wittig in her reasoning pushes the limits of what can be conceivable and thus becomes absurd in her conclusion, there is nothing natural to a woman - even sex. By virtue of her absurdity Wittig's paper faces a conceptual problem, and has an inherent personal bias that has affected the forcefulness of the paper.
Before any elucidation as to the exact argument Wittig sets forth a distinction must first be made clear. According to Wittig there is a fundamental problem between "woman" and "women." "Woman" is a myth, and is consequently the ...

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created by the heterosexual and patriarchal norms which rule society; the same way black identity had been defined through the prejudice eyes of the white man. Furthermore, lesbian society destroys the belief there is a natural group "woman." A lesbian is considered neither man nor woman, and thus "… reveals that the division from men which women have been the object is a political one and shows how [women] have ideologically been rebuilt into a natural group (Course Kit p. 68)." There is a fundamental assumption built into Wittig's reasoning here. Provided there is something natural to man and woman, this would necessarily exclude lesbianism. That is if men and women have ...

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