{"product_id":"monique-wittig-the-lesbian-body","title":"Monique Wittig: The Lesbian Body","description":"\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eFirst published in French in 1973, \u003cem\u003eThe Lesbian Body \u003c\/em\u003emines 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. Through expressions of joy, violence, and tenderness, the site of pleasure is celebrated. In her transfiguration of gender and its paradigms, Wittig transformed French vocabulary, feminizing grammar and lesbianizing myths. This edition brings the English translation of Wittig’s groundbreaking work back into circulation for the first time since the mid-1980s, revised according to the author's notes, and with an introduction by Paul B. Preciado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\"For me, Wittig opened up a sense of the world that had been, quite literally, unimaginable. She tore us apart.\" \u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--black\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The Lesbian Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a fundamental work of lesbian existence. Wittig's applied vision is a state of natural delirium, a revolutionary excess of utopianism, refusal, and mutual self-creation. Revisiting it reveals how much passionate free thought has been lost, and simultaneously, how many of her tropes and discoveries have integrated into our collective consciousness.\" \u003cspan class=\"sqsrte-text-color--black\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Schulman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e The Lesbian Body\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinter Editions, 2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/strong\u003eMonique Wittig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 5.12 x 7.95 inches, 216 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781959708162\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"* New or Sealed *","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56487283786108,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2244\/5351\/files\/2_bfed55cf-69fd-4eff-b1bf-ccaf72dd469e.png?v=1773333749","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.thephotographersgallery.org.uk\/products\/monique-wittig-the-lesbian-body","provider":"TPG Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}