Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature

Sarah Baechle is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is a coeditor of New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Carissa M. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and the author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain. Elizaveta Strakhov is Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years' War and a coeditor of John Lydgate's "Dance of Death" and Related Works.

"Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature brings a new focus on the sexual violence of the pastourelle genre which, as the authors note, has often been erased or sidelined in the mainstream scholarship. The essays offer a unique contribution by showing how the responses of women to sexual violence in the literature is mirrored by the responses of real women to similar events in our time." -Alison Gulley, author of Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts "Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature is a timely, cutting-edge collection of essays that contains some of the most forward-thinking work on sexual violence, consent, and agency in the field of medieval literary studies. These essays chart a new, invigorating direction for feminist work that will shape the field for years to come." -Holly A. Crocker, author of Chaucer's Visions of Manhood