Michèle Causse

Michèle Causse

Michèle Causse (July 29, 1936 – July 29, 2010[1]) was a French lesbian theorist, translator and author.

Early life

Causse was born in Martel region of Lot in France.[2][3] She later taught in Tunisia, and then lived for ten years in Rome, where she studied Chinese.[4] After that she moved to Martinique and then to the United States before emigrating to Canada.[5]

Theory

Canadian academic Clive Thompson has referred to Causse as a "writer of Radical lesbian texts"[6] In her works, she is critical of heterosexuality, stating that "as long as a woman wishes to please a man, she is inauthentic... She does not have the integrity, the un-corruptibility that comes with not wishing to please.".[7] Causse was also critical of both the Women's Movement and of the concept of a homosexual movement, and stated, "I am not a feminist, I am not a homosexual, I am a radical lesbian," She believed that "the women's movement is sustained by lesbians in every country; it is a lesbian movement, profoundly lesbian.[8] She was also critical of the influence of patriarchy on lesbians, claiming that lesbians were phallicized in the 1980s by the male homosexual movement.[9]

Translations

Causse translated between the French, English and Italian languages and was fluent in all three languages. Her translations of works included texts by Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Ti-Grace Atkinson, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Willa Cather, Mary Daly, Ignazio Silone and Alice Munro.

Last years and death

In her last years, she lived in the southwest of France.[10] Causse chose to end her life on her 74th birthday, in association with Dignitas, an assisted dying group in Switzerland.[11][12][13]

This was filmed and then shown on Swiss TV.

Bibliography

Multimedia

Articles

References

  1. http://www.letelegramme.com/ig/generales/france-monde/france/suisse-deces-de-michele-causse-ecrivain-et-militante-lesbienne-30-07-2010-1005494.php Le Telegramme
  2. BIOGRAPHIE de Michèle CAUSSE, 'Revue Violette Leduc
  3. Weil, Lise. Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, issue 20 (1992)
  4. "Michèle Causse". Causse. 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-04.
  5. Michèle Causse
  6. Thompson, Clive. Bakhtin and Feminist Projects: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble in Bakhtin: Carnival and Other Subjects, Ed: David Shepherd 1993 Rodopi, ISBN 90-5183-450-0, p213
  7. Causse, Michele. La Parole métèque, 1991, Montreal, pp 1718
  8. Frédéric Martel, Jane Marie Todd, The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968, Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3274-4, p81
  9. Frédéric Martel, Jane Marie Todd, The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968, Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3274-4, p176
  10. Causse, Michèle. Trivia Magazine, Issue 3, Contributor notes Trivia Magazine
  11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-06. Retrieved 2011-07-12. France Soir
  12. http://michele-causse.com/
  13. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=748_1349359143
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