Obscene Pedagogies Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain 1st Edition by Carissa M Harris ISBN 978-1501755293 1501755293

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Author: 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.

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.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1 – “Felawe Masculinity”: Teaching Rape Culture in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

Opening vignette: A modern case of sexual violence in North Wales as a frame for analyzing medieval rape culture in Canterbury Tales.
Themes:

• Medieval male pedagogical communities

• Obscenity as instruction

• Masculinity and peer education

• Consent, coercion, and silence

Chapter 2 – “With a cunt”: Obscene Misogyny and Masculine Pedagogical Community in the Middle Scots Flyting

Focus: Sixteenth-century Scottish poetic insult battles (flytings).
Themes:

• Obscene misogyny as homosocial bonding

• Same-sex pedagogical functions of obscene speech

• Poetic performance vs. Chaucerian masculinity

• Literary contests shaping masculine sexuality

Chapter 3 – Pastourelle Encounters: Rape, Consent, and Sexual Negotiation

Focus: Pastourelle lyrics and their dramatizations of sexual violence.
Themes:

• Rape culture in lyric traditions

• Female desire, inequality, and sexual negotiation

• Audience pedagogy on rape’s harms

• The Bannatyne Manuscript as a witness

Chapter 4 – Pedagogies of Pleasure: Peer Education in Medieval Women’s Songs

Focus: Women’s lyric voices and obscene wordplay.
Themes:

• Female pleasure and sexual self-articulation

• Chaucer’s Alisoun of Bath as model of “lusty womanhood”

• Obscenity as women’s pedagogy

• Peer education within women’s textual communities

Chapter 5 – Songs of Wantonness: Voicing Desire in Two Lyric Anthologies

Focus: Desire and erotic agency in two medieval lyric collections.
Themes:

• Women’s desire expressed through lyric performance

• Anthologizing practices and thematic framing

• Obscenity, embodiment, and female voice

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