The Bedtrick

Tales of Sex and Masquerade

By: Wendy Doniger

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Paperback | 1 December 2005 | Edition Number 1

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"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 items in the "Weekly World News," to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people get into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. 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. Funny, sexy, and engaging, "The Bedtrick" is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse "and" your lover.
"Doniger seduces the reader with her casual erudition, tempering the dizzying accumulation of evidence with wry asides."--Edward Rothstein, "New York Times"

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"Doniger seduces the reader with her casual erudition, tempering the dizzying accumulation of evidence with wry asides." - Edward Rothstein, New York Times "A triumph.... The numerous glittering parts of The Bedtrick are ultimately held together by the unanswerable, endlessly fascinating questions to which it keeps returning." - Katharine Eisaman Maus, Times Literary Supplement"

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Preface:Why a Book about a Bedtrick?
Texts and Approaches
Texts as Contexts
The Uses of Insomnia
Apologia for the Length of This Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Sex, Text, and Masquerade
Bedtricks Telling the Difference
Sexual Lies and Sexual Truth Texttricks
How to Commit
Adultery with Your Own Spouse
The Double-Back
The God Who Committed
Adultery with His Own Goddess
Double-Backing Husbands
The Double-Play, or Mixed Doubles
The Double-Cross
The Double-Back-Cross
The Double-BackBCross-Play
The Double-Bind Approach
Philosophy, or Love/Sex = Mind/Body?
Body and Soul (and Mind) Sex and Love Desire, Duty, and Domination
The Rape of the False
Mother Sexual Violence in Ancient
India Is a Bedtrick a Rape?
The Abandoning Mother and Lover Approach
Psychology
The Case of the Missing
Identity Freudian
Bedtricks Otto Rank on the Double
Lacan on the Mirror Stage
Waking Up in Bed with an Animal Animal Lovers: Beauty and the Beast
Horses and Swans Snakes and Mermaids
The Fatal Error Animal Husbandry and Animal Brides
Night and Day Approach Three: Zoology The Cuckoo's Nest: Sexually Deceptive
Animals The (Teaser) Mare's Nest: "Not as Good as Stallions"
Is Zoology Destiny?
The Lovely/Loathly Lady
The Lovely Lady
The Loathly Lady The Magic Kiss
Old Women Masquerading as Young Women
The Substitute Bride
Mothers The Substitute Bride
Sisters Twin Sisters Double Takes: The Twin Sisters on Film
Cats and Candles in the Dark
Are All Beautiful Women Alike in the Light? Approach
Feminism, or Women Are Good to Think With
The Silent Woman Night Blindness
The Mouth Says No but the Eyes Say Yes
The Double Standard: Asymmetrical Gender Patterns
Deconstructing and Reconstructing
Beauty Why Is Old Ugly? Face-Lifts
The Cuckolds of the Heart
Cuckolding to Kill Sleeping with the Enemy
Paternal Insecurity, Family Resemblance, and Male Jealousy Parental
Imprinting Approach
Theology, or When God Has Lipstick on His Collar
The Sexual Masques of God Divine Betrayal Human Blindness and Divine Invisibility
Designated Hitters Legal Male
Surrogates Brothers
Twin Beds
The Levirate, Hindu Style The Levirate, Jewish Style
Bedtricksters in the Lineage of Jesus
Transformations of the Levirate
The Droit du Seigneur
European Subversions of the Droit du Seigneur
The Diritto della Signora
Hindu Subversions of the Droit du Seigneur
Jewish Subversions of the Droit du Seigneur Approach
Law, or Loopholes in the Penal Code Rape and Sexual
Fraud Rape and Multiple Personalities
Color, Class, and Clout Color-Blind and Outcaste
Passing In the Light, All Black Cats
Are Black Why Orientals Make Good (Masquerading)
Wives Close Your Eyes and Think of England
Double Penetration Agents Pretenders
Pretending to be an American in Hollywood
Approach
Weapons of the Weak
Cross-Cultural
Cross-Dressing
Cross-Dressing to Kill Cross-Dressing for Love
Gender-Bending in Hollywood
The Double-Cross-Dress
The Double-Back-Cross-Dress and Double-Back-Cross-Dress-Play
The Double-Cross-Dress-Back-Play
The Myth of Gender-Transcending in Reality
Turning the Transsexual
Tricks of the Trade
Approach
Queer Studies and the Theater of Deception
Cross-Dress
Rehearsals
Operatic
Scenarios
Sexual
Objectives and Sexual Objects
Incest Incest and the Bedtrick
Mothers and Sons Fathers and Daughters
Brothers and Sisters
The Family Romance as Comedy and Tragedy
Approach
Sexual Rhetoric
Aural Sex
Dirty Stories
The Double
Entendre A Lover by
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