Why are We Reading Ovid's Handbook on Rape?

Madeleine Kahn has taught eighteenth-century English literature for fifteenyears and is the author of Narrative Transvestism: Rhetoric and Gender in theEighteenth-Century English Novel (Cornell University Press, 1991).

A surprising, shocking, sometimes scandalous, often disruptive, and finally a profoundly transformative book about teaching. --William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago Shows how good teaching can foster genuinely collaborative thinking. Particularly interesting for feminist readers and readers concerned with women students. --Nancy Glazener, University of Pittsburgh

• Introduction; Chapter 1 “You want me to do What?” Intimacy and Pedagogy at a Women’s College; Chapter 2 “Why are we reading a handbook on rape?” Ovid’s Metamorphoses; Chapter 3 “The female audience just isn’t that big a deal.” A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke; Chapter 4 “That wall isn’t real unless I say so.” Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote; Chapter 5 “No one told me you had to be a lesbian to take this class.” Linda Lovelace’s Ordeal; conclusion Conclusion;