Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality (MFF, e-ISSN 2151-6073) is an online, peer-reviewed journal of interdisciplinary scholarship on women, gender, and sexuality 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.
Current issue: Volume 60, number 1 (2025)
Articles
The Fortitude of Medieval Women, by Virginia Blanton
The Fortitude of Friendship: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany and Bishop Marbode of Rennes, by Amy Livingstone
Being English(?) In Ireland: Women's Seals and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, by Brittany Rancour
Women as Disputants in Thirteenth-Century English Forest Law, by Paula A. Hayward
Interior Design and Queenly Display in the Household of Isabella of France, by Anne Stanton
Arranging for Space: Religious Performance, Piety, and the Tomb of Joan de Mohun, by Melissa M. Morris
Elizabeth Brice and Elizabeth Rede: Two Female Goldsmiths, by Katherine French
Mothers at Home, Writing Letters: Alessandra Strozzi and Margaret Paston, by Joel Rosenthal
Book Reviews
Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in the Literature of Medieval England, by Elizabeth Allen, review by Wendy Matlock
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society, by Eleanor Janega, review by Emily C. Francomano
Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally, edited by Katheryn Loveridge, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Sue Niebryzdowski, and Vicki Kay Price, review by Caitlin Branum Thrash
Pierre de Vaux and Sister Perrine de Baume, Two Lives of Saint Colette with a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette, edited and translated by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinki, review by Marisa Michaud
Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300–1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith, by Lynneth Miller Renberg, review by Clint E. Morrison Jr.
Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature, by Charlie Samuelson, review by Anna Klosowska
Gender and the 'Natural' Environment in the Middle Ages, edited by Theresa L. Tyers and Patricia Skinner, review by Danielle Allor
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, through the Women Written Out of It, by Janina Ramirez, review by Jo Koster
English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400–1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood, by Alexandra Verini, review by Kirsty Bolton
Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film, by Usha Vishnuvajjala, review by Lucy Barnhouse