Obscene Pedagogies - Carissa M. Harris

Obscene Pedagogies

Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain
Buch | Softcover
306 Seiten
2021
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5529-3 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent.


Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.

Carissa M. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University.

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Pedagogy of Obscenity

1. "Felawe Masculinity": Teaching Rape Culture in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

2. "With a cunt": Obscene Misogyny and Masculine Pedagogical Community inthe Middle Scots Flyting

3. Pastourelle Encounters: Rape, Consent, and Sexual Negotiation

4. Pedagogies of Pleasure: Peer Educationin Medieval Women's Songs

5. Songs of Wantonness: Voicing Desirein Two Lyric Anthologies

Conclusion: "Grab 'em by the pussy": Obscene Pedagogies, Past and Present

Appendix to Chapter 4: Songs of Lusty Maidens

Appendix to Chapter 5: Songs of Wantonness

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-5017-5529-3 / 1501755293
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-5529-3 / 9781501755293
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