Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an online, peer-reviewed journal of interdisciplinary scholarship on women and gender in medieval studies. We invite studies of literature, history, religion, art and architecture, and medievalism, including ones that employ theoretical models ranging from (but not limited to) queer theory and trans studies, critical race theory, decolonial and postcolonial approaches, disability studies, ecocriticism, materiality, affect theory, and history of emotion. Studies of specific authors or events are welcome, but should be framed for an audience of feminist medievalists broadly construed as well as for specialists in the case study. Articles will preferably be under 10,000 words (including footnotes).
Beginning with v.57 (2021) this will be published by Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute Publications.
Current Issue: Volume 60, Number 2 (2025)
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Articles
Bad Trans Feelings in "Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss"
Basil Arnould Price
Let Calle Hym Trystrams: Women's Reproductive Bodies and Resistance in Malory's "Le Morte Darthur"
Adelaide Greig
Marie de Clèves’s “Rien ne m’est plus”: Reshaping Widowhood in the "Roman de Troyle"
Molly Bronstein
“The Most Virile of Monks”: Gender (and) Transformation in the Mystical Writings of Teresa of Ávila.
Harri Hudspith
Becoming the Sibylline Astrologer: Invention, Inheritance, and Identity in Christine de Pizan’s "Le livre du chemin de longue étude"
Kimberly T. Anderson
Book Reviews
Lordship and Governance by the Inheriting Countesses of Boulogne, 1160–1260 by Heather J. Tanner
Jessica Minieri
Nascere. Il parto dalla tarda antichità all’età moderna edited by Alessandra Foscati, Costanza Gislon Dopfel, and Antonella Parmeggiani
Marjolaine Raguin
Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England by Mary Beth Long
Sarah Friedman
Maternal Materialities: Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth edited by Costanza Gislon Dopfel
Claire Kilgore
Premodern Masculinities in Transition edited by Konrad Eisenbichler and Jacqueline Murray
Hilary Rhodes