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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts40
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China32
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran31
Contested narratives of belonging: Zimbabwean women migrants in Britain31
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Women, religion and the war27
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review21
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel21
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities20
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence20
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws19
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)18
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Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan15
Home health care industry in India; an account of genderised labour in commercial health care economy15
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience14
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics13
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil13
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms13
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis12
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children12
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru11
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector10
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh9
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident9
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?9
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain9
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity8
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?8
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control8
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy8
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women7
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light7
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy7
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study7
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals7
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden6
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan6
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands6
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Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain6
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities6
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance6
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women6
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China5
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada5
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach5
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia5
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer5
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times5
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law5
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender5
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby5
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye5
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)5
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester5
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data5
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music5
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis5
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain4
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study4
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia4
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics4
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions4
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression4
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men4
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey4
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?4
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South4
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors4
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo4
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education4
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students4
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal4
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain4
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‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders4
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty4
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey4
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy4
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany4
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university4
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities3
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis3
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom3
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka3
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain3
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation3
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network3
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections3
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers3
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women3
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction3
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan3
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws3
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Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania3
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong3
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia3
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work3
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia3
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?3
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The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle3
Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi3
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–19853
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies3
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice3
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district3
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Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma3
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits3
Outsourcing mothering for schooling: Why Taiwanese middle-class mothers hire tutors3
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis3
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles3
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India3
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey3
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan3
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms3
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children3
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status3
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India3
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan2
War, women and forced displacement2
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico2
Effects of brand awareness and feminist message level in femvertising: An experimental study2
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people2
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal2
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM2
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Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence2
Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide2
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports2
Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers2
Introduction: Transgression and its costs2
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The annual struggle for equality: Analysis of Aurat March coverage in Pakistan's English print media (2018–2024)2
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian2
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics2
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?2
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan2
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society2
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education2
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses2
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills2
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles2
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye2
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India2
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program2
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory2
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations2
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India2
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women2
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement2
Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement2
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry2
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression2
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty2
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”2
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection2
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The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community2
Women's political power: Global progress, persistent challenges1
Mobilizing the women, peace and security agenda for refugee women's participation: Committees and cooperatives in Turkey1
Delegitimizing a woman politician through sexist humor in online public discourse: A discursive analysis using positioning theory1
Institutional challenges to delivering domestic violence services in Ghana: A case of structural violence?1
Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia: A geospatial analysis1
Negotiating between speech and silence as a form of agency: Understanding Dalit women's experiences of sexual violence in India1
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Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions1
The impacts of violence against women on choice and agency: Evidence from Ghana and Pakistan1
New directions for researching and writing African feminist histories1
‘It's always that idea that everyone's trying to look like something’: Revisioning sociocultural factors in eating disorders through Photovoice1
“Spouses have a huge role” in preventing firearm suicide among women veterans: Partners' perspectives, experiences, and needs1
Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries1
“The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the press representation of Hollywood’s biggest sexual harassment scandal1
Introduction: The future of gender regimes1
The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision1
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes1
When feminism does not begin at home. Exploring attitudes to feminism in mother-daughter dyads in Poland1
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia1
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A multi-actor perspective of humanised midwifery care excellence: An exploratory survey1
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave1
“A normal nation in our land”: Reproductive righteousness, redemptive politics and LGBTQIA+ opposition in contemporary Israel1
Structural vulnerability and neoliberal subjectivities of low-income binational families in Singapore1
Gender differences in risk aversion: Evidence from private pension system in Türkiye1
Accountability for atrocity crimes in Ukraine: Gendering transitional justice1
Perpetuation of rape myths through news reporting on Intimate partner violence: A Transitivity Analysis of Asma Aziz case1
Are women present in history classes? Conceptions of primary and secondary feminist teachers about how to teach women's history1
The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (WASH-GEM): Conceptual foundations and domains of change1
Contextualizing universal norms: Evaluating Nigeria's National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and women's lived realities in rural areas1
Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times1
Examining barriers and reasons for sport retirement in women's soccer: A qualitative study1
Rethinking women, peace, and security through the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 & National Action Plans: A study of Nepal and Sri Lanka1
Transnational comparison of ‘comfort women’ advocacy movements in Japan and South Korea1
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces1
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
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Pricing policies and culture at two Singapore hostess bars: Is a grounded cosmopolitan ethics possible in such a setting?1
Economic violence against Arab-Palestinian women in Israel: Coping mechanisms in social, cultural and structural contexts1
Sexual life of Spanish women during the lockdown by COVID-19: Differences according to sexual orientation?1
Demystifying ‘diet culture’: Exploring the meaning of diet culture in online ‘anti-diet’ feminist, fat activist, and health professional communities1
The Court of Justice and gender recognition: A possibility for an expansive interpretation?1
When home becomes classroom: The shifting roles of Korean immigrant mothers in the management of children's education during COVID-19 in the US1
“It takes work ethic to get two-piece ready”: Neoliberalism, postfeminist healthism, and aesthetic labor in U.S. pageantry1
Religious pressures on women's rights in Southeast Asia: Examining the right to an abortion in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam1
“Leave me out of it and raise my salary”: Invisible work in the labor market and the gender wage gap1
Inside the dark world: Women's trade and prostitution in Patricia McCormick's Sold and Awais Khan's No Honour1
Partner's contribution to housework and couple bonding activities among Korean working women: Heterogeneity by socioeconomic status1
The call-up from women to healthcare professionals: The experiences and expectations during self-injection in fertility treatment1
Post-communist perspectives on decolonial feminism1
The mindset, lifelong learning, and gerotranscendence of elderly women in Taiwan: An exploratory study1
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies: The case of Hungary1
Research trends on the intricate dimensions of divorce among women: A bibliometric analysis1
‘Although I had a failed marriage, I won't be a failure as a mother’: An analysis of Vietnamese single mothers' involvement in their children's schooling1
The effect of tourism on gender equality in the labour market: Help or hindrance?1
The psychological dimension of menopause among Somalia women: phenomenological study1
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa1
Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway1
New frontiers of parenthood: Sperm smuggling, IVF, and gender roles in Palestine1
To be (different) or not to be: The role of gender in constructing diplomatic speeches1
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network1
When social responses for violence against women are insufficient to prevent homelessness - A perspective from Quebec (Canada)1
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices1
The relationship between cyberchondria levels, attitudes towards menopause and menopausal complaints of women in the climacteric period: Analysis with data mining1
Navigating restrictions: External funding and WPS implementation1
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Zohra Drif looks back on her war experience1
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice1
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category1
When digital feminisms collide with nationalism: Theorizing “pink feminism” on Chinese social media1
Underrepresentation of female speakers at online and in-person dentistry conferences1
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Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India1
Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India1
Exposing pornography's true nature: A conceptual framework1
Health effects of the #metoo movement by gender: Public health implications of a social movement1
Young people's experiences of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in England and Canada: Toward a feminist framing of technologically facilitated sexual violence1
Patriarchy and patriarchal customs in the Meitei Society of Manipur1
Invisibilization of the unwanted Others? Feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on the 1951 Refugee Convention’s drafting1
Japan's new anti-harassment law and the ironic legitimation of workplace harassment against women managers1
How mumpreneurs achieve high entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and development: Evidence from China1
Intersectionality in gender inequality among women: Adopting policies to minimise unpaid care burden on rural women in north-western Ghana1
Examining divorce risk through gender roles in Pakistan1
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