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- catalog abstract ""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. And you will learn that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11636084.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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. And you will learn that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 535-576) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface: Why a book about a bedtrick? -- Introduction: Sex, text, and masquerade. -- How to commit adultery with your own spouse. -- Approach one: Philosophy, or love/sex = mind/body? -- The rope of the false mother. -- Approach two: Psychology. -- Waking up in bed with an animal. -- Approach three: Zoology. -- The lovely/loathly lady. -- Approach four: Feminism, or Women are good to think with. -- The cuckolds of the heart. -- Approach five: Theology, or When God has lipstick on his collar. -- Designated hitters. -- Approach six: Law, or Loopholes in the penal code. -- Color, class, and clout. -- Approach seven: Weapons of the weak. -- Cross-cultural cross-dressing. -- Approach eight: Queer theory and the theater of deception. -- Incest. -- Approach nine: Sexual rhetoric. -- Real sex and fantastic sex. -- Approach ten: Structuralism. -- Conclusion: Carnal ignorance and carnal knowledge. -- Appendix: Bedtricks in Stith Thompson's Motif-index.".
- catalog extent "xxxi, 598 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0226156427 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Worlds of desire".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "291.1/78357 21".
- catalog subject "BL325.S42 D64 2000".
- catalog subject "Deception.".
- catalog subject "Sex Mythology Comparative studies.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface: Why a book about a bedtrick? -- Introduction: Sex, text, and masquerade. -- How to commit adultery with your own spouse. -- Approach one: Philosophy, or love/sex = mind/body? -- The rope of the false mother. -- Approach two: Psychology. -- Waking up in bed with an animal. -- Approach three: Zoology. -- The lovely/loathly lady. -- Approach four: Feminism, or Women are good to think with. -- The cuckolds of the heart. -- Approach five: Theology, or When God has lipstick on his collar. -- Designated hitters. -- Approach six: Law, or Loopholes in the penal code. -- Color, class, and clout. -- Approach seven: Weapons of the weak. -- Cross-cultural cross-dressing. -- Approach eight: Queer theory and the theater of deception. -- Incest. -- Approach nine: Sexual rhetoric. -- Real sex and fantastic sex. -- Approach ten: Structuralism. -- Conclusion: Carnal ignorance and carnal knowledge. -- Appendix: Bedtricks in Stith Thompson's Motif-index.".
- catalog title "The bedtrick : tales of sex and masquerade / Wendy Doniger.".
- catalog type "Comparative studies. fast".
- catalog type "text".