Monique Wittig Garden

The Monique Wittig Garden in the fourteenth arrondissement serves as a quiet public tribute to one of the most provocative figures in twentieth century French thought. Monique Wittig was a novelist, philosopher, and activist who fundamentally challenged the ways society constructs gender. She helped found the Women's Liberation Movement in Paris during the nineteen seventies and became a central voice in radical feminist theory. Her work often explored the idea that gender is a political regime rather than a natural state.