Building A Digital Feminary

Notes on the names in Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères

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(Order by Nickname)   (Order by Importance)

Armide
"Armide (Jean-Baptiste Lully)". Naxos Music. <http://www.naxos.com/newdesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Armide(Jean-Baptiste_Lully).htm>.
Atala
"Atala". ATHENA. Ed. Pierre Perroud. 2002. <http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/chateaubriand/chat_ata.html>.
French Culture
"Authors on Tour: Christine Delphy". Cultural Services of the French Embassy. 2002. <http://www.frenchculture.org/books/tours/cv/delphy.html>.
Coralie
"Baise-Moi". Movie Review. Au-Cinema. 2001. <http://www.au-cinema.com/Baise-Moi.htm>.
Balzan
"Dominique Schnapper, France: A Portrait". 2002. International Balzan Foundation. 2004. <http://www.balzan.com/en/preistraeger/schnapper.cfm>.
Egyptian Women
"Egyptian Women: Chronology of Major Events, 1873-1994". 2000. Egypt State Information Service. 2004. <http://www.sis.gov.eg/women/nology/html/nology.htm>.
Gidlow
"Elsa Gidlow". 1986. Helaine Victoria Press. 2004. <http://www.jocelync.com/wom01.html>.
Great Wall
"History of the Great Wall". TravelChinaGuide. Xi'an Foreign Languages University. 14 Apr 2004. <http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/culture/beacon.htm>.
20000 Names
20,000 Names From Around the World. 2004. <http://www.20000-names.com/>.
Pantheon
Encyclopedia Mythica. Ed. Micha Lindemans. 2004. Encyclopedia Mythica Online. <http://www.pantheon.org/>.
Thousand Nights
The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. Trans. Richard F. Burton. NY: Heritage P., 1934.
IMDB
The Internet Movie Database. 1990-2004. <http://imdb.com>.
Tain Bo Cuailnge
The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cuailnge. Trans. Thomas Kinsella. Mountrath, Ireland: Dolmen P, 1986.
Vinland
The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America. Trans. Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson. London: Penguin Books, 1965.
Aban Yasht
Aban Yasht. "Hymn to the Waters". Sacred Books of the East. Trans. James Darmesteter. 1898. Avesta: Zoroastrian Archives. Feb. 2004. <http://www.avesta.org/ka/yt5sbe.htm>.
Encyclopedia of Lost Histories
Amazon, Lizzard and Eleanor May Henry. Encyclopedia of Lost Histories. Califas, Aztlán: Tollbooth Press, 2069.
War Resisters
Anderson, Shelly. Review of Learning True Love: How I Learned and Practiced Social Change. WRI Women 95/02. 1995. War Resisters International. <http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/ww-199502.htm>.
Athenaeus
Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis. Translated by Charles Burton Gulick for the Loeb Classical Library, 1937. 10 May 2004. <http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/deipnon/deipnon3.htm>.
Balyos
Balyos, Harold. "Life of Elena Petrovna Blavatskaya". Three Remarkable Women. Altai Publishers. Date unknown. Maitreya Sangha: A New Era Internet Center. Ed. White Mountain Education Association. Mar. 2004. <http://sangha.net/agni-yoga/hpbio.htm>.
Bulle
Berman, Sandra. "Bulle Ogier". All Movie Guide. 2004. The New York Times: Movies. <http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html>.
Birrell
Birrell, Anne. Chinese Mythology: An Introduction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
Burger
Burger, Gottfried August. "Lenore". English translation from 1796. 8 May 2004. <http://www.artofeurope.com/burger/burg1.htm>.
Behind the Name
Campbell, Mike. Behind the Name: the Etymology and History of First Names. 9 Jan. 1996. <http://www.behindthename.com>.
Foremothers
Cross, Patricia L. "Feminist Foremothers 1400-1800." Sunshine for Women. March 1999. <http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/whm_99.html>.
Warriors
Cross, Patricia L. "Women Warriors." Sunshine for Women. May 1996. <http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/essays/warrior.html>.
Bathsua
Cross, Patricia L. "Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning by Frances Teague". Review. 1999. Sunshine for Women. <http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/makin_b.html>.
Gyn/Ecology
Daly, Mary. Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon P., 1978.
Marbot
de Marbot, Baron. Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot. Trans. Oliver C. Colt. The World Wide School. Oct. 2001. <http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/hst/biography/MemoirsofGeneralBarondeMarbot/chap22.html>.
Dev Sen
Dev Sen, Nabaneeta. "Lady Sings the Blues: When Women Retell the Ramayana". MANUSHI no. 108. Sep. - Oct. 1998. <http://free.freespeech.org/manushi/108/nabaneeta.html>.
Other Women's Voices
Disse, Dorothy. "Madeline de Scudery". Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's Writing Before 1700. 22 Apr 2004. <http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/scudery.html>.
Franks
Duerinck, Kevin F. "The History of the Franks". 2004. <http://www.duerinck.com/franks.html>.
Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th ed. 1911. LoveToKnow Free Online Encyclopedia. 2004. <http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/>.
Fatima
Fatima. "Fatima's Speech". From Fatima the Gracious by Odeh A. Muhawesh. Reprinted at <http://www.hal-pc.org/~amana/fatima.html>.
Plewman
Forbes, Andy. "Plewman, Eliane, Biography". 1995. The Women of the Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.). 2004. <http://www.64-baker-street.org/text_version/agents/agent_fany_eliane_plewman_txt.html>.
Fraser
Fraser, Antonia. Warrior Queens: The Legends and the Lives of the Women Who Have Led Their Nations in War . NY: Anchor, 1990.
Hittites
Giusepi, Robert A. "The Hittites: A history of the Hittites including their cities, kings, art and contributions to civilization". World History Project. 2003. <http://ragz-international.com/hittite_empire_to_c.htm>.
Hamilton
Hamilton, Edith. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes.. New York: New American Library, 1969.
Herodotus
Herodotus. The Histories. Trans. Aubrey de Selincourt. NY: Penguin, 1972.
Higgins
Higgins, Bernie and David Vaughan. "Bozena Nemcova - the Mother of Czech Prose". 6/15/2003. <http://www.radio.cz/en/article/41766>.
Jewish Encyclopedia
Hirsch, Emil G. and M. Seligson. "Rachel". 2002. Jewish Encyclopedia. 6 May 2004. <http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/>.
Jones
Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
Patron Saints
Jones, Terry H. Patron Saints Index. 2004. <http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/indexsnt.htm>.
Alabaster Jars
Kestner, Jackie. Alabaster Jars: Women of the Bible. 2004. <http://www.alabaster-jars.com/biblewomen-a.html>.
Exemplary
Kinney, Anne. "Death by Fire: The Story of Boji". Traditions of Exemplary Women. 2003. <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/xwomen/boji_essay.html>.
Taipei Times
Lee Ke-chiang. "Koo Yen Pi-hsia, the Luku Incident and White Terror". Taipei Times. 1 Sep. 2002. <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/09/01/166372>.
Lewis
Lewis, Jone Johnson. "Anna of Kiev". Your Guide to Women's History. About.com. 2004. <http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/russia/p/p_anna.htm>.
Lie Nu Zhang
Liu Xiang. Lie Nu Zhuang (Stories of Exemplary Women). 79 B.C.E. Ed. Anne Behnke Kinney. University of Virginia. 1999. <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/lienu/browse/Lienu.html>.
Bilitis
Louys, Pierre. The Songs of Bilitis. 1894. Trans. Alvah C. Bessie, 1924. Ed. J.B. Hare. <http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/index.htm>.
Ossian
MacPherson, James. The Poems of Ossian. 1796. James MacPherson's "Ossian" E-text. 2003. <http://solomonspalding.com/SRP/Ossian/MacPidx0.htm>.
Sarah
Mark, Elizabeth Wyner. "The Engendered Shema: Sarah-Echoes in the Name of Israel". Judaism, Summer 2000. <http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0411/3_49/66353962/print.jhtml>.
New French Feminisms
Marks, Elaine, and Isabelle de Courtivron. New French Feminisms: An Anthology. New York: Schocken Books, 1981.
Woman at Point Zero
Matko, Kendra L. "Woman at Point Zero". Book review. <http://www.wmich.edu/dialogues/texts/womanatpointzero.html>.
Persian Letters
Montesquieu. Persian Letters. 1721. Trans. John Davidson. London: Gibbings and Co, 1899. Etext ed. Ronald Schecter. 2002. <http://fsweb.wm.edu/plp/>.
Manifeste
Montreynaud, Florence. "Manifeste: Why we are still 'feminist', 20 good reasons or more". Encòre Fèmenistes. 8 Mar 2001. Trans. Claire Bangasser and Regan Kramer. <http://encorefeministes.free.fr/manifeste_gb.php3>.
Moody
Moody, Ellen. "Amélie Mansfield: Introductory Note". 2004. Introduction to etext. <http://www.jimandellen.org/cottin/AMtextnote.html>.
French Feminism
Moses, Claire Goldberg. French Feminism in the 19th Century. Albany, NY: State U of NY P, 1984.
Goldberg Moses
Moses, Claire Goldberg. French Feminism in the 19th Century. Albany, NY: State U of NY P, 1984.
North
North, Alix. "Poetry of Katherine Fowler Philip". Isle of Lesbos. 1995. Sappho.com. 2004. <http://www.sappho.com/poetry/k_philip.html>.
Ovid
Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. A. D. Melville. Oxford: Oxford P, 1998.
Russian Women
Oxford University Department of Medieval and Modern Languages. "Russian Women's Writing". 2002. <http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/ppwomen.html>.
Anarchist Feminism
Presley, Sharon. "Feminism in Liberty". Exact date unknown: early 1980s. The Memory Hole. <http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/femme.html>.
Prodiversitas
ProDiversitas. "Quechua A-K". Programa Panamericano de Defensa y Desarrollo de la Diversidad biológica, cultural, y social. 2004. <http://www.prodiversitas.bioetica.org/queca-k.htm>.
Proust
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Things Past. Vol. III. Trans. C.Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, and Andreas Mayor. NY: Random House, 1982.
Psellus
Psellus, Michael. Fourteen Byzantine Rulers. Trans. E. R. A. Sewter. London: Penguin, 1966.
Qaribullah
Qaribullah, Hasan. The Prophet Muhammed. Chap. 38. Date unknown. <http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Muhammad/Book/Millennium_Biography/Chapter_038.htm>.
Rosemont
Rosemont, Penelope., ed. Surrealist Women: An International Anthology. Austin: U of TX P, 1998.
Incas
Rostworowski, Maria. "Tupac Yupanqui's Conquest". The Incas. Centro Cultural Perú Virtual. <http://incas.perucultural.org.pe/english/hissurg6a.htm>.
Salmonson
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda. The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Modern Era. NY: Paragon House, 1991.
Sappho
Sappho. Sappho: A New Translation. Poems. Trans. Mary Barnard. Berkeley: U of California P, 1958.
Schwarzer
Schwarzer, Alice. "Kurzbiographie". Personal home page. 2004. <http://www.aliceschwarzer.de/kurzbiographie.html>.
Spacefem
Spacefem. "Feminist of the Day". 18 Apr 2004. <http://www.spacefem.com/feministoftheday/viewfem.php?id=74>.
Spender
Spender, Dale. Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them. London: Pandora P., 1982.
Columbia
The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001-04. New York: Bartleby.com, 2001. <http://www.bartleby.com/65/>.
Classics-L
Theodoracopoulos, Elias J. and David M. Schaps. "Etymology of the name ANTIGONE". Online Posting. 19 Nov 1988. Classics-L. <http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/mailing_lists/CLA-L/1998/11/0646.php>.
Tristan
Tristan, Flora. Peregrinations of a Pariah. Trans. and ed. by Jean Hawkes. London: Virago P., 1986.
Mahabharata
Von Buitenen, J.K. The Mahabharata. Vols. 1-4. Trans. and ed. J.A.B. van Buitenen. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1973.
Vytlacilova
Vytlacilova, Lenka, and Sunshine. "Czech Feminist Trailblazers." Sunshine for Women. 2003. <http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/czech/czech.html>.
French Wikipedia
Wikipédia. Wikipédia: L'encyclopédie libre. <http://fr.wikipedia.org/>.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia. Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation. 2003-2004. <http://www.wikipedia.org>.
Withycombe
Withycombe, E.G. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977.
Lesbian Peoples
Wittig, Monique and Sande Zeig. Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary. Trans. Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. New York: Avon, 1979.
LGF
Wittig, Monique. Les Guérillères. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1969.
LGEA
Wittig, Monique. Les Guérillères. Trans. David Le Vay. Avon P., 1973.
LGEB
Wittig, Monique. Les Guérillères. Trans. David Le Vay. Boston: Beacon P, 1985.
Straight Mind
Wittig, Monique. The Straight Mind and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon P, 1992.
Mills
Women's Leadership Institute, Mills College. "1997-98 Distinguished Visitors Program for Women Scholars". 1998. <http://www.mills.edu/WLI/PAST/wli.s98.vschol.html>.
Yonge
Yonge, C.M. History of Christian Names. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan and Co, 1884.
Deeds
Yonge, C.M. A Book of Golden Deeds. London: Blackie and Son, 1894. <http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/yonge/deeds/deeds.html>.
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