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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen50
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“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women41
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel39
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China39
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-1936
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts28
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran27
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities25
“There are different parts of me”: Acculturation of Gujarati women living in London and balancing two cultures23
A social semiotic analysis of visual representation in science textbooks for Maarif Model for Turkey's century22
Women, religion and the war20
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence20
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review19
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil18
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children17
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A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics16
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity15
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident14
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws13
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?13
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan13
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector12
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Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience11
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care10
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)10
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain10
Controlling women's voices: Legal repression and the silencing of the #MeToo movement in India9
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms9
Challenging norms, facing backlash: navigating the path toward gender equality in east Asia9
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru9
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women8
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance8
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy8
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis8
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals8
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye8
Regulating female sexuality through honor killings: A symbolic violence perspective on a girl in the river8
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light8
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control8
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy8
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study8
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?8
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain7
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities7
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh7
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia7
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer7
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan7
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs7
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain7
Voices of resistance and solidarity: A feminist critical discourse analysis of #AuratMarch discourse on Twitter7
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia7
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China7
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music7
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law7
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times7
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: Categorizing and understanding sexual abuse against women ridesharing drivers7
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands7
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye7
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy6
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach6
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis6
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany6
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey6
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics6
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester6
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender6
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data6
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo6
Navigating overqualification: Syrian female refugees with university degrees in the labour market6
Between compliance and defiance: Negotiating femininity in Satyajit Ray's Pather and6
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada6
Exploring the links between patriarchy, informal networks, and corruption tolerance: Evidence from Kazakhstan6
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression6
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions6
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
Democratic backsliding and the shifting dynamics of empowerment: The case of the All-Poland Women's Strike5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women5
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors5
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students5
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses5
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal5
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain5
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children5
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China5
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain5
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty5
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China5
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education5
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey5
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Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?5
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South5
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university5
What remains: Crisis, neoliberal capture, and care among Moldovan feminists5
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia5
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men5
Behind the wheel and under the lens: How gender stereotypes drive perception in Türkiye5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study5
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice5
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule4
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain4
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status4
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
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities4
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws4
“She passed by”: How young Palestinian men talk about women's looks in public and private4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India4
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Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network4
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Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India4
Justice or tradition? Cross-national media framing of honor killings in India, Pakistan, and global outlets4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan4
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction4
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan4
Weaving culture: Indigenous women of Northeast India as agents of tradition and identity4
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma4
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle4
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka4
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia4
Gender discourse and femadvertising in India: A multi-modal discourse analysis4
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India4
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?4
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–19854
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis4
Late diagnosis of autistic women in Spain: A participatory study3
Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement3
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills3
War, women and forced displacement3
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory3
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan3
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society3
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania3
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers3
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal3
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Introductory essay: Race, gender and queering/querying sport and movement cultures3
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people3
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian3
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression3
#MeToo in an AI-generated deepfake sexual violence era in South Korea3
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits3
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Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty3
Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right3
“Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India”3
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection3
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”3
Cases of violence against women resulting in death during divorce/separation process: Femicides in Türkiye3
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry3
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM3
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia3
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education3
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Urinary incontinence in elite women's artistic gymnastics: A qualitative case study of athletes' perspectives and management strategies3
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong3
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey3
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses3
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?2
Demystifying ‘diet culture’: Exploring the meaning of diet culture in online ‘anti-diet’ feminist, fat activist, and health professional communities2
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations2
Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India2
Navigating restrictions: External funding and WPS implementation2
The use of ‘feminism’ in the Turkish National Corpus and its social reflections2
Institutional challenges to delivering domestic violence services in Ghana: A case of structural violence?2
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics2
Empowering women through property ownership: Implications for intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries2
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women2
Introduction: Transgression and its costs2
When speaking out goes too far: Framing Taiwan's #MeToo2
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico2
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India2
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program2
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women2
Does TMT gender balance improve firm resilience? A perspective of team conflict management2
When digital feminisms collide with nationalism: Theorizing “pink feminism” on Chinese social media2
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports2
Pandemic resilience: How green women entrepreneurs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa adapted to COVID-19?2
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India2
The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (WASH-GEM): Conceptual foundations and domains of change2
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices2
Exploring the causes of violent behavior in female youth in North Macedonia: A risk factor analysis2
Underrepresentation of female speakers at online and in-person dentistry conferences2
Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping2
New directions for researching and writing African feminist histories2
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India2
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Effects of brand awareness and feminist message level in femvertising: An experimental study2
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
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
“It takes work ethic to get two-piece ready”: Neoliberalism, postfeminist healthism, and aesthetic labor in U.S. pageantry2
The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community2
Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times2
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye2
Shaping gender disparity in childcare between dual-earner parents in urban China: An exploratory study of influencing factors2
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement2
Gender, religion, and singlehood: A feminist analysis of ultra-Orthodox women's experiences beyond expected marriage age2
Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence2
“Spouses have a huge role” in preventing firearm suicide among women veterans: Partners' perspectives, experiences, and needs2
Anti-gender politics and European democracies' legacies of exclusion and violence2
Notions of the ‘ideal’ schoolgirl and hybrid patterns of femininity for 10–11-year-olds in two London schools2
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice2
“That pressure is already killing you”: Exploring experiences of empowerment and disempowerment of Turkish female athletes2
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes2
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles2
Economic violence against Arab-Palestinian women in Israel: Coping mechanisms in social, cultural and structural contexts2
Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions2
Negotiating between speech and silence as a form of agency: Understanding Dalit women's experiences of sexual violence in India2
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network2
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia2
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan2
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Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide2
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave2
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces2
“Leave me out of it and raise my salary”: Invisible work in the labor market and the gender wage gap2
Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries1
When social responses for violence against women are insufficient to prevent homelessness - A perspective from Quebec (Canada)1
Transnational comparison of ‘comfort women’ advocacy movements in Japan and South Korea1
“No strength to stop”: Persevering in fertility treatment despite repeated failures – A qualitative investigation1
The psychological dimension of menopause among Somalia women: phenomenological study1
Research trends on the intricate dimensions of divorce among women: A bibliometric analysis1
Ukrainian displaced women entrepreneurs in EU countries: Pathways to inclusion in the European business environment1
I'm just a girl in the world (That's all you'll let me be): Exploring young women's perceptions of hypersexualization and infantilization within experiences of girlhood1
Empowering women in agriculture: Critical role of gender-intentional investments in Pakistan1
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
Examining divorce risk through gender roles in Pakistan1
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‘It's always that idea that everyone's trying to look like something’: Revisioning sociocultural factors in eating disorders through Photovoice1
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Experience of violence perception among Iranian female sex workers and their strategies in confronting violence1
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