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Sex & Other People's Gods
31 January 2005Sharlet: Years ago I interviewed Wendy Doniger, the U Chicago scholar of mythology. At the time, she was working on a cross-cultural study of getting screwed, literally and figuratively -- what happens when you go to bed with a guy you think is Prince Charming, and wake up with a toad. Over her desk she'd pinned an exhortation to stay focussed on her work: "Keep Your Eye on the Ball(s)." That dedication has led Doniger afoul of a fundamentalist strain in contemporary Hinduism, ultra-conservatives who accuse her of -- gasp -- reading sex into the Kama Sutra, and, more broadly, just being a woman talking about sex and other people's gods. Such is the subject of her new book: The Woman Who Pretended to be Who She Was.
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