The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig
A lyrical, fragmentary work that collapses boundaries between flesh and speech to render lesbian desire as both intimate communion and political revolt; the narrator’s voice moves between tenderness and violent erotic imagery as bodies merge, consume, and reconfigure one another, using experimental syntax and striking metaphors to expose how language and institutions produce sexed subjects. The book functions as an aesthetic manifesto—simultaneously celebratory and confrontational—challenging heterosexual norms and insisting on the body as the site of liberation and redefinition.
- Published
- 1973
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- French
- Avg User Rating
- No ratings yet
- Alternate Titles
- - Le Corps lesbien
This book is not currently on any lists.