This dissertation aims to highlight the revolutionary scope of Monique Wittig’s The Straight Mind and Other Essays (1992) and its French and Italian translations in Western society. It is divided into four chapters which propose to map out Wittig’s theoretical and literary journey in the infernal circles of the straight mind. Throughout the work, I consider the elements of Robert Darnton’s communication circuit to analyse how their profiles contributed to shape the history of Wittig’s book. I outline the formation of queer theory around the concept of gender, and I rely on feminist and queer approaches to translation for analysing the texts. I demonstrate how the translators’ habitus influences their stylistic choices and how criticisms of Wittig’s theory fueled her success and the diffusion of a lesbian subjectivity. Wittig has accomplished a profound subversion of the paradigms of the heterosexual regime that subtend reality and has enabled us to understand it beyond identity constructions and oppressive relations.