Obscene PedagogiesPub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0003
Carissa M. Harris
{"title":"“With a cunt”","authors":"Carissa M. Harris","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter highlights the poets at the sixteenth-century Scottish court who use obscene misogyny to foster homosocial community and teach one another codes of masculine sexuality. It details the discussion of insult poetry, in which men use obscene misogyny to teach one another to refrain from intercourse altogether. These exchanges in the literary insult battles known as “flytings,” dislodge the primacy of copulating with women from models of exemplary masculinity. In the code espoused by Chaucer's faction, not having sex is unmanly, while for the flyters over a century later, intercourse imperils one's masculinity and bodily sovereignty. Ultimately, the chapter reveals how flyters draw on three separate but overlapping misogynist cultural traditions to teach their lessons about sexuality: the internalized misogyny in women's criminal quarrels that accuses women of breaking patriarchal rules governing sexual conduct; the literary misogyny articulated by aged male lyric voices that views women's bodies as devouring men's virility; and the clerical misogyny that encourages men to eschew matrimony by invoking women's inherent lasciviousness and moral depravity.","PeriodicalId":392714,"journal":{"name":"Obscene Pedagogies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128378324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Obscene PedagogiesPub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0005
Carissa M. Harris
{"title":"Pedagogies of Pleasure","authors":"Carissa M. Harris","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter exposes how alewife poems and singlewomen's erotic songs stage models of peer education in which women teach their peers how to pursue pleasure, minimize risk, and negotiate for satisfaction. It explores English songs from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which enact common models of same-sex performative pedagogy. The chapter discusses these understudied lyrics and reveals a paramount focus on pleasure in women's sexual education even as they traffic in misogynist stereotypes of the “lusty maiden” — young, single, often lower-status — who is always ready for sex. In their emphasis on maidens' self-assured pursuit of pleasure, the chapter unveils how these lyrics contrast sharply with popular discourses that portray young women's erotic expression as engendering shame, regret, and self-inflicted social and spiritual ruin. Ultimately, the chapter shows how these lyrics represent same-sex peer pedagogy as having the potential to engender changes in sexual culture that are as necessary today as they were in the Middle Ages.","PeriodicalId":392714,"journal":{"name":"Obscene Pedagogies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128020752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Obscene PedagogiesPub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0006
Carissa M. Harris
{"title":"Songs of Wantonness","authors":"Carissa M. Harris","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates how scribal practices in sixteenth-century lyric miscellanies can incite audiences' empathy for educational purposes. It focuses on the potential for educative empathy in two sixteenth-century manuscript anthologies of early Tudor court songs, the Ritson Manuscript and MS Ashmole 176. The chapter argues that we can claim these lyrics as part of an “affective inheritance” of gendered struggle that persists to this day. They depict the first-person experiences of rape survivors and victims of exploitation in vivid, unflinching detail, encouraging audiences to identify with their perspectives, acknowledge them as sexual subjects, and understand how structural inequalities manifest in individual harms. Like the pastourelles in the Welles Anthology, these “songs of wantonness” both illuminate and are inflected by the courtly complaints surrounding them. By staging these contrasting perspectives and mobilizing obscenity's educative potential, the anthologies in the chapter explore the power dynamics in erotic relationships and probe how those dynamics are shaped by physical space, bodily difference, and intersectional disadvantage.","PeriodicalId":392714,"journal":{"name":"Obscene Pedagogies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114254060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Obscene PedagogiesPub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0002
Carissa M. Harris
{"title":"“Felawe Masculinity”","authors":"Carissa M. Harris","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores how men in same-sex contexts use obscenity to denigrate women and perpetuate rape culture. It argues that this paradigm, sometimes, taught men to have as much sex as possible and to ignore women's nonconsent for the purpose of producing narratives for their peer group, as in the code of “felawe masculinity” embraced by a group of pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's portrayal of the “felawe faction” sheds light on how the telling of violent sexual jokes enacts the violence they ostensibly trivialize, as obscenity creates a gendered social dynamic teaching a set of values and relations among men that results in violence and harm. This brand of masculinity is prominent in Fragment I of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where three men tell fabliaux featuring the obscene verb “swyve.” The chapter then shows how “swyve” creates gendered pedagogical community and teaches men that sexual aggression is both necessary and laudatory. Ultimately, the chapter explores the relationship between masculinity and obscenity that is central to the teaching of “felawe masculinity,” and examines the pedagogical practices of a group of male characters.","PeriodicalId":392714,"journal":{"name":"Obscene Pedagogies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122903196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Obscene PedagogiesPub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0004
Carissa M. Harris
{"title":"Pastourelle Encounters","authors":"Carissa M. Harris","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755293.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter moves from exploring obscenity's role among men to focus on its relationship to sexual violence in pastourelles. It shows how women's obscenity has the potential to disrupt rape narratives and educate audiences about consent and power. By outlining the two poems — All to lufe and not to fenyi in the Bannatyne Manuscript and The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, the chapter illustrates two ways that Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts engage with rape. In some texts, women's experiences of violation are not the chief focus, and we rarely hear from the victim herself. Instead, rape functions as a literary trope. The chapter argues that pastourelles are centrally concerned with women's experiences of the threat of sexual violence, and their female speakers articulate resistance, fear, anguish, and anger in response to that threat. Echoing the rape-prevention strategies of female-voiced conduct texts, the chapter reveals how pastourelles show how fictive female voices were imagined as educating young women about how best to navigate life as embodied subjects in a world where assault is an ever-present possibility.","PeriodicalId":392714,"journal":{"name":"Obscene Pedagogies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127276108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion: Obscene Pedagogies, Past and Present","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501730412-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501730412-009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":392714,"journal":{"name":"Obscene Pedagogies","volume":"64 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122361512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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