Womens Studies International Forum

Papers
(The median citation count of Womens Studies International Forum is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
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“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen42
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women39
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China36
Women, religion and the war34
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel33
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence27
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-1926
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts22
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran21
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review21
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities19
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil18
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A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics16
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children16
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review16
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident15
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?14
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan14
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws12
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh12
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector11
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Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience10
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms10
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis10
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control10
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Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain10
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care9
How gender shapes the experience of running for office: A comparative study of women and men candidates from Bolivia's local and national elections (2020−2021)9
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy8
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light8
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?8
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals8
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity8
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study8
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye8
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women8
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Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands7
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities7
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain7
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy7
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law7
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh7
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times7
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain7
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs7
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia7
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data6
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis6
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender6
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music6
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)6
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia6
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby6
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China6
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye6
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach6
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada6
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy6
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan6
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer6
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men5
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China5
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics5
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey5
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors5
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children5
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies5
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Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia5
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty5
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression5
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education5
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women5
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university5
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey5
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study5
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students5
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions5
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo5
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South5
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms5
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders5
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain5
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain5
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status4
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction4
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice4
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws4
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule4
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis4
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Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India4
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan4
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation4
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India4
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles4
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain4
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia4
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka4
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–19854
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective4
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections4
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district4
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?4
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities4
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian3
Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right3
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression3
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education3
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong3
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers3
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The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry3
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses3
Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence3
Cases of violence against women resulting in death during divorce/separation process: Femicides in Türkiye3
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills3
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War, women and forced displacement3
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan3
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits3
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom3
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty3
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey3
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”3
Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement3
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people3
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory3
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania3
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal3
#MeToo in an AI-generated deepfake sexual violence era in South Korea3
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society3
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“Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India”3
Outsourcing mothering for schooling: Why Taiwanese middle-class mothers hire tutors3
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM3
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection3
Introductory essay: Race, gender and queering/querying sport and movement cultures3
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles3
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes2
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports2
“Spouses have a huge role” in preventing firearm suicide among women veterans: Partners' perspectives, experiences, and needs2
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave2
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India2
Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers2
The annual struggle for equality: Analysis of Aurat March coverage in Pakistan's English print media (2018–2024)2
Post-communist perspectives on decolonial feminism2
Does TMT gender balance improve firm resilience? A perspective of team conflict management2
The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community2
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice2
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations2
Negotiating between speech and silence as a form of agency: Understanding Dalit women's experiences of sexual violence in India2
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico2
Institutional challenges to delivering domestic violence services in Ghana: A case of structural violence?2
“That pressure is already killing you”: Exploring experiences of empowerment and disempowerment of Turkish female athletes2
Underrepresentation of female speakers at online and in-person dentistry conferences2
Effects of brand awareness and feminist message level in femvertising: An experimental study2
Navigating restrictions: External funding and WPS implementation2
Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide2
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network2
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices2
The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision2
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan2
When home becomes classroom: The shifting roles of Korean immigrant mothers in the management of children's education during COVID-19 in the US2
Anti-gender politics and European democracies' legacies of exclusion and violence2
“Leave me out of it and raise my salary”: Invisible work in the labor market and the gender wage gap2
When speaking out goes too far: Framing Taiwan's #MeToo2
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Introduction: Transgression and its costs2
The effect of tourism on gender equality in the labour market: Help or hindrance?2
Exploring the causes of violent behavior in female youth in North Macedonia: A risk factor analysis2
Rethinking women, peace, and security through the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 & National Action Plans: A study of Nepal and Sri Lanka2
The use of ‘feminism’ in the Turkish National Corpus and its social reflections2
Empowering women through property ownership: Implications for intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries2
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics2
New directions for researching and writing African feminist histories2
Late diagnosis of autistic women in Spain: A participatory study2
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces2
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women2
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement2
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia2
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?2
Partial gender quotas: The disparity in women's representation in Taiwan's legislature and cabinet2
Demystifying ‘diet culture’: Exploring the meaning of diet culture in online ‘anti-diet’ feminist, fat activist, and health professional communities2
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye2
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program2
Gender, religion, and singlehood: A feminist analysis of ultra-Orthodox women's experiences beyond expected marriage age2
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India2
Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India2
Notions of the ‘ideal’ schoolgirl and hybrid patterns of femininity for 10–11-year-olds in two London schools2
Economic violence against Arab-Palestinian women in Israel: Coping mechanisms in social, cultural and structural contexts2
Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping2
Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions2
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women2
Empowering women in agriculture: Critical role of gender-intentional investments in Pakistan1
An assessment on surging crime, gender violence, and justice mechanisms in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh1
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Emotional exhaustion in female health support workers in elderly care facilities1
Women and the war in Ukraine: New developments1
Emotions, thoughts, and coping strategies of women with infertility problems on changes in treatment during Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative study1
Women and intersectional barriers in social exclusion1
“Mom's a bit different”: The challenges of first-time mothers with cerebral palsy in caring for their children from birth until age three1
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Zohra Drif looks back on her war experience1
‘It's always that idea that everyone's trying to look like something’: Revisioning sociocultural factors in eating disorders through Photovoice1
The relationship between cyberchondria levels, attitudes towards menopause and menopausal complaints of women in the climacteric period: Analysis with data mining1
Does women's education improve the sex ratio at birth? Gender, agency and sex-selective abortion in South and East Asia: a critical literature review1
Experience of violence perception among Iranian female sex workers and their strategies in confronting violence1
Gendered perspectives on obsessive-compulsive disorder among Russian women: A comparative study of self-identified and clinically diagnosed individuals1
Thirty years of gender mainstreaming: Evolution, development, and future research agenda through a bibliometric approach1
Uprising and corporeal resistance: Re-gendering the space of revolution1
The struggle for identity among Black professional women who are widowed: A South African feminist perspective1
From precariousness to prostitution: Experiences of Moroccan migrant women with trafficking and sexual exploitation in agricultural settings1
Exploring self-exclusion as a gendered barrier in Spanish universities. A mixed methodological study1
Delegitimizing a woman politician through sexist humor in online public discourse: A discursive analysis using positioning theory1
Transnational comparison of ‘comfort women’ advocacy movements in Japan and South Korea1
Contextualizing universal norms: Evaluating Nigeria's National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and women's lived realities in rural areas1
“No strength to stop”: Persevering in fertility treatment despite repeated failures – A qualitative investigation1
The impacts of violence against women on choice and agency: Evidence from Ghana and Pakistan1
When social responses for violence against women are insufficient to prevent homelessness - A perspective from Quebec (Canada)1
Decolonial queering sport and movement in Palestine1
Female homicides, laws, and women's empowerment: An early warning of retaliation effect1
Feminist constitutional narratives, the pandemic and hyper-presidentialism in Turkey1
The appointment of female arbitrators—What do islamic law and the constitutions of Arab muslim countries really say?1
Anti-genderism in Turkey: Masculinist entrenchment through cultural intimacies1
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category1
Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia: A geospatial analysis1
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Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries1
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