Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
AbbreviationSMFS
Formation1985; 39 years ago (1985)
FieldsMedieval Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies
Membership
Melissa Ridley Elmes (President 2020-2021)
Formerly called
Medieval Feminist Newsletter

The Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) is an academic organization which "promotes the study of the Patristic Age, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies".[1] Its development followed the rise of the study of medieval women in the 1970s and 1980s, and sought to increase the number of and sponsor papers about medieval women, and feminist theory driven scholarship, at the largest international medieval studies conferences, International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo and Leeds IMC.[2][3]

In 2007, the Society had over 1000 members from around the world.[4]

  1. ^ "Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Webpage". Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  2. ^ Bennett, Judith, and Ruth Mazo Karras, eds. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. Oxford: OUP. pp. 3–4. ISBN 9780199582174. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Watt, Diane, ed. (1997). Medieval Women in their Communities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 1. ISBN 0802042899.
  4. ^ Bennett, Judith M.; Bennett, John R. Hubbard Professor of History Judith M. (2006). History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-8122-3946-1.