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The Lesbian Body

by Monique Wittig · 1973 · 165 pages

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On a fictional Sapphic island where women live exclusively among themselves, the narrator-protagonist, in a series of invocations to her lover and descriptions of the island's life, celebrates the contours, contents, and satisfactions of the lesbian body.

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Genre
LGBTlesbianeroticaromance
Themes
feminismLGBTgender
Setting
1970s
Subject
philosophy
Audience
adult
Length
short · 165 pages
Form
poetry

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