Abstract
Readers of the extant works of Geoffrey of Monmouth will not be surprised to find a chapter on Geoffrey and gender issues in this volume, for the work in feminist theory produced during the 1980s and 1990s made such a strong case for the relevance and usefulness of feminist approaches to medieval texts that feminist interpretations are now part of the critical mainstream in medieval studies.¹ However, postcolonialist work on Geoffrey’s oeuvre has tended to overshadow feminist work on it.² A possible explanation of this pattern is that much of the best work in Galfridian studies has combined postcolonialist and