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The mythology of masquerading animals, or, bestiality
CULTURES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD REPRESENT OUR DECEPTIVE relationships with animals as masquerades, which operate in both directions: in our rituals,...
Social Research, 09/22/04 by Wendy Doniger · More from publication -
When is it okay to joke?
EXCERPT The ability to laugh, we know, is vital. To do so in the midst of terror and anxiety is even more important. The following excerpt is from...
Sojourners Magazine, 05/01/03 by Doniger, Wendy · More from publication -
The symbolism of black and white babies in the myth of parental impression - Critical Essay
AN ANCIENT and enduring cross-cultural mythology explores what the texts generally perceive as a paradox: the birth of white offspring to black...
Social Research, 03/22/03 by Wendy Doniger · More from publication -
The Mythology of the Face-lift
FACE-LIFTS, and surgical procedures to make the face look younger, are nothing new. Medical techniques that have made them a reality are fairly...
Social Research, 03/22/00 by Wendy Doniger · More from publication -
Eating Karma in Classical South Asian Texts
Hinduism focuses on what the faithful should not do in addition to what they should. This includes what cannot be eaten, or under what...
Social Research, 03/22/99 by Wendy Doniger · More from publication -
Sex, lies, and tall tales - Truth-Telling, Lying and Self-Deception
Sexual love is a delusion, perpetrated by both partners in bed. In addition, having sex with someone cuts away the artificial trappings of a...
Social Research, 09/22/96 by Wendy Doniger · More from publication -
Our Vampires, Ourselves. (book reviews)
Nina Auerbach. Chicago. 231 pp. $22. Nina Auerbach, a literary Van Helsing (and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania), hunts...
Nation, The, 11/20/95 by Doniger, Wendy · More from publication -
The Arabian Nights II: Sinbad and Other Popular Stories. (book reviews)
Wendy Doniger is the author of Women, Androgynes, and Other Beasts (Chicago) and co-editor of the forthcoming Off With Her Head! The Deniai of...
Nation, The, 10/16/95 by Doniger, Wendy · More from publication -
Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade. (book reviews)
Once upon a time, more precisely on October 5, 1728, a child named Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Thimothee d'Eon was born to a...
Nation, The, 10/16/95 by Doniger, Wendy · More from publication -
The mythology of masquerading animals, or, bestiality - In the Company of Animals
Bestial deception, or the masquerade of an animal as a human, is a common theme in mythology. Often the story features the symbol of a mutilated...
Social Research, 09/22/95 by Wendy Doniger · More from publication
