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 58, Number 1 (2022) Gender, Science, and the Natural World
Essays on Medieval Literature from the 2020 Gender and Medieval Studies ConferenceComplete Issue
Articles
Foreword to “Gender, Science, and the ‘Natural’ World” p. 7-9
Laura Kalas
Gender, Science, and the Natural World: Essays on Medieval Literature from the 2020 Gender and Medieval Studies Conference p. 10-14
Linda E. Mitchell and Daisy E. Black
Female Masculinity in the Embodied Beowulf Wetlands: A New, Radical, Ecofeminist Approach p. 16-44
Teresa Pilgrim
Thereby Hangs a Tail: Creation and Procreation in Medieval Werewolf Romances p. 45-66
Vicki Blud
Abduction and Feminine Expression in Sir Orfeo p. 67-83
Ruth Worgan
Being the Bigger Ram: Arable vs Pastoral Masculinities in the Towneley Mactacio Abel p. 84-105
Daisy E. Black
May Medica: Divine Healing and the Garden in “The Merchants Tale” p. 106-127
Maria Zygogianni
“Let Him Walk with You”: Telling Stories About Fifteenth-Century Men, and the Women they Left Behind p. 128-145
Rachel E. Moss
Retrospective
Lessons Learned—They’re Not Just for Academia, But for Life p. 146-151
Linda E. Mitchell
Book Reviews
Female Desire in Chaucer’s “Legend of Good Women” and Medieval English Romance p. 152-154
Suzanne M. Edwards
Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages p. 155-158
C. Libby
The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare p. 158-161
Masha Raskolnikov
Christine de Pizan, “The God of Love’s Letter” and “The Tale of the Rose” p. 161-163
Roberta Krueger
Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters p. 164-166
Mary Dockray-Miller
Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, edited by Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Klosowska. p. 166-169
Nat Rivkin
Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages, edited by Katherine Kerby-Fulton, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, and John Van Engen. p. 169-172
Linda E. Mitchell
Back Matter
Notes on Contributors p. 173-174
