Book ID: CBB453699434

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain (2021)

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Carissa M. Harris (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 306
Language: English

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Totaro, Rebecca Carol Noel
Exalto, John
Ahonen, Marke
Courtney Q. Shah
Loconsole, Matteo
James M. Bromley
Concepts
Sexuality
Medicine and literature
Human body
Medicine
Medicine and gender
Sex instruction; sex education
Time Periods
Renaissance
Early modern
19th century
16th century
17th century
Ancient
Places
England
Italy
France
Scotland
United States
Netherlands
Institutions
Young Men's Christian Association, World’s Committee (Genewa)
Boy scouts of America
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