Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality (MFF)

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality (MFF) was born in 1984, the result of a serendipitous encounter at Kalamazoo airport between three feminist medievalists in the aftermath of the annually convened International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University. Bearing the title Medieval Feminist Newsletter (MFN), its founders and foremothers, E. Jane Burns, Roberta (Bonnie) Krueger, Elizabeth Robertson, and, a little later, Thelma Fenster, established it primarily as a forum for facilitating for communication and intellectual exchange between feminist medievalists in the academy who had been feeling disconnected from one another. Its first issue, distributed primarily by hand and by mail, appeared in May 1986. MFN included short research papers and papers from Kalamazoo sessions focusing on gender, discussions surrounding the teaching of medieval studies, summaries of current research into medieval gender and sexuality, and issues surrounding feminist publications. As such, MFN began as a precursor to the now fully international Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS), which was launched in its wake in 1992 to provide a more formal framework for communication and mutual support, and as a primary forum for research into medieval sexuality and gender across the world. In 1999, MFN morphed into Medieval Feminist Forum to better reflect its newly established status as a fully peer-reviewed academic journal, responding further in 2014 to additional important epistemological shifts by adding the qualifier A Journal of Gender and Sexuality to its primary title. Under that aegis, it continues to offer a forum promoting scholarship and interdisciplinary exchange, especially in the context of medieval gender and sexuality studies across the globe. MFF went fully online in 2009 and, in its evolved format, continues the ethos of the original Newsletter in its committed support of a diverse and fully inclusive medieval studies.

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality (MFF) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, Medieval Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Queer Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities , Online or Print , Triennially Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 1536-8742, E-ISSN: 2151-6073, Established: 2025,
• Provides Crossref DOI

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