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 61, Number 1 (2026) Special Issue: New Critical Approaches to Medieval Consent
Complete Issue
Articles
Introduction: What is Consent?
Lucia Akard and Alice Raw
“And She Learned from Experience”: Sexual Deception and Communities of Protection in the "Life of Yvette of Huy"
Lestra Atlas
Status, Servants, and Sexual Availability: Consent and Coercion in "Ami et Amile," "Guy of Warwick," and "Sir Degrevant"
Hannah Piercy
Book Reviews
Iberoamerican Neomedievalisms: “The Middle Ages” and Its Uses in Latin America, edited by Nadia R. Altschul and Maria Ruhlmann
Emily Francomano
Women and Magic in Medieval Romance: Genre, Intertextuality, and Power, by Jane Bonsall
Melissa Elmes
A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy, by Tamar Herzig
Lyn Blanchfield
White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages, by Wan-Chuan Kao
Thelma Trujillo
Chaucer and Becket’s Mother: “The Man of Law’s Tale,” Conversion, and Race in the Middle Ages, by Meriem Pagès
Daisy E. Black
Editors
- Lucia Akard
- Alice Raw