Abstract
Though Monique Wittig's first two books, L'opoponax (The Opoponax) and Les guerilleres (Les Guerilleres), have been the focus of considerable attention, her last two, which have the word in the title, have been relatively ignored. The present essay analyzes one of these neglected works, Le corps lesbien, which I consider an important contribution to the epistemological revolution now being carried out by feminist thought, especially the aspect of the revolution that attacks the semiological problem of phallogocentrism. Wittig's reorganization of metaphor around the lesbian body represents an epistemological shift from what seemed until recently the absolute, central metaphor-the phallus.2
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