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 59, Number 2 (2024)
Complete Issue
Articles
Embroidering “Hir Word”: The Assembly of Ladies, Christine de Pizan, and the Medieval Écriture Féminine
Akari Kobayashi
Fictional Literary Biography
Sarah E. Novacich
Book Reviews
Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature, With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles
Grace Delmolino
Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps
Kaitlin Sager
Between Orders and Heresy: Rethinking Medieval Religious Movements
Mary Anne Gonzales
Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000–1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities
Gabrielle F. Storey
Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Emily C. Francomano
A Mother’s Manual for the Women of Ferrara: A Fifteenth-Century Guide to Pregnancy and Pediatrics
S.C. Kaplan
Early English Queens, 650–850: Speculum Reginae
Theresa Earenfight