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>From: "Holly Crocker" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Sexual Education in Medieval
>Literature (no deadline noted; Kalamazoo,
>5/4/06-5/7/06)
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>Call for Abstracts, Kalamazoo 2006
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>ìSexual Education in Medieval Literatureî
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>This panel seeks papers that explore the
>consequences of young peopleís sexual
>education*or lack thereof*across genres in
>medieval literature. While certain saintsí
>narratives use the young virginís desire to
>avoid sexual initiation as a way to express his
>or her exemplary distance from lay society, the
>virginís desire to avoid marriage and its
>consummation suggest an awareness of sexuality
>that characters in other genres do not display.
>Most notably, Old French fabliaux suggest the
>problems that ensue as a result of attempts to
>educate young women and men about their gendered
>sexual roles. While many fabliaux suggest that
>human sexuality cannot be contained by
>prescriptive gender-education, others explore a
>feature common to romance, genderís tendency to
>postpone or disrupt sexual encounters. This
>panel thus also seeks papers that explore the
>function of the ìgo-betweenî in medieval
>narratives, looking at the ways that old women,
>panderers, or even bawds provide ìforbid!
> denî sexual education to men and women who
>might not otherwise be able to gain such needed
>knowledge.
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>Please send 1 page abstracts to:
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>Holly A. Crocker
>Department of English
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia, SC 29208
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>e-mail submissions welcome!
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