Obscene Pedagogies : : Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain / / Carissa M. Harris.

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....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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 in the Middle Scots Flyting
  • 3. Pastourelle Encounters: Rape, Consent, and Sexual Negotiation
  • 4. Pedagogies of Pleasure: Peer Education in Medieval Women’s Songs
  • 5. Songs of Wantonness: Voicing Desire in Two Lyric Anthologies
  • Conclusion: Obscene Pedagogies, Past and Present
  • Appendix to Chapter 4: Songs of Lusty Maidens
  • Appendix to Chapter 5: Songs of Wantonness
  • Bibliography
  • Index