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The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) about?
"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. __The Bedtrick__ brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the __Weekly World News__, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film __The Crying Game__ was retitled __Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis__. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and ide
Who reads The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226156439
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Science, Social Science