The lesbian body

by Monique Wittig

Book Overview

Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships. "That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level." --The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688029000
• ISBN13: 9780688029005
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Morrow
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a challenging new language of love

This book is not an easy read, either content-wise or stylistically, but it is one of the most satisfying books I have read. Monique Witting is a radical feminist who believes that langugae itself must be reinvented to better serve the experience of women, and this book is her attempt to do so. She describes in painful, clinical detail the bonding of two women lovers---their very viscera entwining and disentangling as the relationship ebbs and flows. It is remarkable how we all use phrases like "we were totally bonded" without thinking--this book examines such concepts on a literal(and often unpleasant) level. It is difficult to find, but worth getting for anyone interested in extremely radical notions of language and also in truly deep exploration of the extremities of love.