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Book SynopsisBrings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the 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.
Trade Review"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"