The Lesbian Body

In this genre- and gender-breaking work of theory-fiction, legendary writer and cofounder of the 1970s French feminist movement Monique Wittig celebrates the body-lesbian, literary and defiantly political-and challenges the order of heterosexuality in literature. First published in French in 1973, The Lesbian Body mines the relationship between a lover and a beloved-also a writer and a text-to explore the ideological and historical constructions of the female subject. Organized according to the principle of montage, poetic passages are juxtaposed with anatomic lists that mark lesbian eros.