Womens History Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Womens History Review is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective7
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20056
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’4
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany4
The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula4
Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–19974
Introduction: transnational women’s activism4
Sardinia: women, history, books and places3
Don’t call it magic: Indigenous knowledges in sixteenth-century Portuguese Inquisition trials of women in Brazil and West Africa3
Distant sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–19143
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace3
Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–19003
Gender in urban development of post-war Europe. Women’s social position in the planning strategies of Basildon (UK) and Pernik (Bulgaria) in the long 1950s3
Out from the shadows: gendered archetypes and the landscape of history2
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada2
Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene2
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history2
Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé , by Elizabeth Cobbs, Cambridge, Harvard 2
The translation of women within the context of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement (1868–1935)2
‘They were their boyfriends’: the construction of the image of the perpetrator in cases of sexual assault in the community of Manta during the Peruvian internal armed conflict2
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo2
Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo2
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian women in the Gulag2
Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain2
Survival is a Promise: the eternal life of Audre Lorde2
Flying ahead inside and outside of the circus tent, 1927–1960s: Ma and the Flying Melzoras2
The Politics of Women’s Suffrage: Local, National and International Dimensions2
‘Careers for women’: BBC women’s radio programmes and the ‘professional’, 1923–19552
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?2
‘A meeting of different tribes’? Travelling women and mobility between European and Australasian women’s lands1
Viewpoint: engaging the public with the Pankhurst home1
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida and women’s presence in international cooperation during the interwar period1
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction1
The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory1
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20121
‘Appropriated to her own use and benefit’: women, larceny, and race in post-Civil War South Carolina1
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present1
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity1
Teenage Intimacies: young women, sex and social life in England, 1950–801
The business of birth: malpractice and maternity care in the United States1
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–19211
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain1
The women’s peace camp at Comiso, 1983: transnational feminism and the anti-nuclear movement1
‘Were they to have petticoat government in the hospital?’ The reform of nursing in nineteenth-century Lincoln1
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives1
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence1
Translocal homemaking and home unmaking in the letter memoir of Alice Lucy Hodson1
Introduction: reflections on women's history from Japan1
Surviving home: womanhood, contentious intimacy & the trauma of home in Tobago, 1900–19601
Archiving the initiative of the Chinese rural left-behind women of migrant men in modern epistolary narratives (1910s–1920s)1
Daring to hope, my life in the 1970s1
Youth, suffering and ‘comfort women’ in Timor-Leste: towards a people's perspective of history1
The streets as a cloister. History of the daughters of charity. 17th-18th centuries1
Carmen Callil (1938–2022): an appreciation1
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue1
The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts1
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women1
Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: history without memory1
Images of Chinese women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exotic knowledge books1
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz1
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world1
Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, & Suffrage, 1890-19651
Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing1
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances1
Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies1
Transformative waters in late-medieval literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe1
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism1
Black left feminism in pre-revolutionary Cuba: the life and work of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa (1901–1958)1
Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 18540
‘To remember everything, to remember always’: the writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny0
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars0
‘Domestic tyranny’ and ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia0
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe0
Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice , edited by Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James 0
Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction0
Intersectionality of early sexual trauma and aging in two Truku comfort women survivors’ life trajectories0
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–220
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra0
In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States0
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–19400
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): from its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach0
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life0
Emma Goldman’s ‘the traffic in women’ revisited: sex work, sweatshops, and discourses of slavery0
‘It was the Presentation nuns who made a rebel of me’: women religious and Ireland’s Revolutionary Era0
Women, media, and power in Indonesia0
Saving ‘Ireland's children’: voluntary action, gender, humanitarianism, and the Irish White Cross, 1921–19470
‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–450
Koizumi Ikuko: The making of a Christian feminist in imperial Japan, 1892–19220
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher0
The governess in nineteenth-century Ulster middle-class households0
Minnie Pallister: the Voice of a Rebel0
The representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation0
Challenging colonial knowledge: gender and sexuality of Indigenous women in sixteenth-century Brazil0
‘And now you love me, and there is no way out of it’: marital engagement, misogyny and violence in the Victorian fin-de-siècle gothic short story0
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0
Women’s suffrage in word, image, music, stage and screen. the making of a movement0
Women and reproductive technologies: the socio-economic development of technologies changing the world0
Care for the care takers: the refugee crisis as opportunity for change0
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings0
Unclean dirt: Katharine Bruce Glasier and the pithead baths campaign, 1906–19260
Women and gardens: obstacles and opportunities for women gardeners throughout history0
History on trial: the abortion wars0
Rehabilitating homes and humans: probation, gender and domesticity in Britain, 1907–19600
Campus protest0
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
‘The thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement0
Forgotten wives: how women get written out of history0
A ‘master-mistress’: revisiting the history of eighteenth-century wives0
Dutch women and the Lesbian International0
Ingenious trade: women and work in seventeenth-century London0
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe0
Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s0
The Statue of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) in Dukes Plaza, Woking0
Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting0
Taking travel home: the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-18300
Standing with the women, men and children in Ukraine0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
Reading between the lines: marginalised sisters at Nostell Priory, 1765-18000
Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political , by Jo Littler, 2023, London, Lawrence Wishart, 0
‘Alice Diamond, giant—queen of the terrors’: female gangsterism, violence and criminal mythmaking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century London ‘underworld’0
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
Herawati Diah’s cultural diplomacy: redefining the role of a diplomat’s spouse in 1950s–1960s Indonesia0
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–19140
Roe: the history of a national obsession0
‘They Call Me Babu’: the politics of visibility and gendered memories of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia0
Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects0
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey0
Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society0
Deserted wives and economic divorce in 19th-century England and Wales: ‘for wives alone’0
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture: thinking through religious transformation0
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)0
The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–19140
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain0
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.0
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)0
‘Notes on a Community Struggle’ Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the ‘mass struggle of housewives’0
‘Work in the Housewives’ Service, like that of a household, seems never to be done’: the ‘practical politics’ of the Women’s Voluntary Service in the Second World War0
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world0
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
Expanding the possibilities of historiography: from the experience of the exhibition ‘gender in Japanese history’0
Women’s activism and state policies during International Women’s Year and the United Nations decade for women: a comparative perspective0
Oral histories of Tibetan women: whispers from the roof of the world (Routledge research in gender and history)0
A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation0
Cheap labour: gendered jurisdictions and feminizing capitalism0
Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–19490
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
Staging emancipation and its limits: East German cultural diplomacy, the German Democratic Women’s League, and the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin0
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers0
In continuous expectation: Isabella d'Este's reign of letters0
An eastern feminist perspective on the ‘woman question’: the activity, thought and writing of ‘A‘isha Taymur & Malak Hifni Nasif0
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
Women, religion and associativism: the aristocratic origins of the National Council of Italian Women, 1903–19080
Recent trends in Japanese research on European gender history: beyond the nation-state and Eurocentric narratives0
The financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774–18600
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
Henrietta Howard: mistress, survivor, imperialist?0
Irish women’s wartime networks: care work and female agency on the first world war home front0
‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school0
Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality0
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime0
Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial0
Mirabai in public spheres0
Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian feminist and female intellectual. Who was she and why has she been forgotten?0
‘For the benefit of mothers and children:’ welfare, daycare, and cheap labor in the 1960s0
Australian academic women and promotion since 1975: patriarchal equilibrium?0
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland0
Mobilising affect and trauma: the politics of gendered memory and gendered silence0
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
Screening women’s history in the film Suffragette (2015): between intersectional feminist activism and historical memory0
Revisiting the legacy: the historical influence of Mary Daly, Janice Raymond, and Shelia Jeffreys on ‘gender-critical’ feminism0
The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation0
Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century0
‘A perfect farce’: the practice of claiming damages for adultery in the late-Victorian divorce court0
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
‘God is an equal opportunities employer- pity about the Church’: humour and the campaign for women’s ordination in the Church of England, 1978–19940
The hidden half: the double lives of Chinese migrant women in post-war Britain0
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–17450
Feminist lives: women, feelings, and the self in post-war Britain0
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: a gendered opportunity0
Knowledge production and activism on the ‘comfort women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia0
The women of Rendezvous: A transatlantic story of family and slavery0
Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–19850
Crime in the nineteenth-century Irish home0
Introducing Lesbian Nation0
The Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19910
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–19750
‘World enemy bolshevism’: gender, journalism & the continuities of ideological conflict in Germany, 1933–19550
‘I Do Not Believe In Silence’ by Clare Shaw, from Head On (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)0
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families0
Women in STEM in Higher Educations: Good practices of attraction, access, and retainment in higher education Women in STEM in Higher Educations: Good practices of attraction, access, an0
Dale Spender (1943–2023): some personal reflections0
L ibertine London: sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis0
The cultural legacy of ‘We’ll Meet Again’: an exploration of the song’s historical and ongoing ties to gender and the nation at war0
Fixing women: the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in Britain and America0
Illegal treatment for immoral sex: abortion among single women in 1940s Shanghai0
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–19450
The archival practice of ‘comfort women’ documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue0
Women and Gender in the Qur’an0
Beyond the homefront: Chinese women’s agency, familial love, and sisterhood during the Second Sino-Japanese War0
‘The negro type of beauty’: Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein’s Art, 1915–19590
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights0
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
‘Caring for the community on poverty wages’: care workers’ experiences of low pay, exploitation, and precarity in Britain (1979–2010)0
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
Sacred bundles unborn0
Edith Summerskill: letters from deserted wives0
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20130
Congratulations to Rachel Reeves who, in 2024, becomes the first woman to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK0
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
From ‘literary air hostesses’ to ‘top bananas’: the professional identity of the woman publisher in Australia0
Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–17980
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction0
The boss: female executives and the inertia of postfeminism0
Movie workers: the women who made British cinema0
Time, labour, and the ‘dual role’: Viola Klein’s study of ‘Professional Womanpower’ as a feminist archive0
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press0
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain0
‘Against forgetting’: the struggle for inclusive remembrance in the ‘comfort women’ discourse0
Great expectations and hard times:- the advent of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and women’s entry to the legal profession0
Building alternative archives. A reappraisal of Dwelling in the Archive by Antoinette Burton0
The future of gendered pasts: thoughts about emerging research into women’s history in Australia as feminists globally confront attacks on and the regression of women’s rights0
‘The stinking whirlpool of abuse and ignorance’: the marginalisation of sex workers in Ireland, c.1975–19850
Deeds and words: suffrage and the London library0
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–19590
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria February 20230
Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard: on the trail of ‘Kitty’ Marshall and the met police ‘Cats’ Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard: on the trail of ‘Kitty’ Marshall and the met police ‘Cats’ 0
Reconstructing subjectivity from silence: Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Ryan and the Victorian archive0
The motif of tears: representations of activism and suffering in the Liji Alley Museum in Nanjing0
Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women0
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
The international council of women in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century: reception, influence and exchanges0
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–640
The Patriarchs: the origins of inequality The Patriarchs: the origins of inequality , by Angela Saini, Boston, Beacon Press, 2023, vii + 246pp, $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN 0
‘Real rape’ and the coverage of sexual violence in Dutch newspapers, 1880 to 19300
Hilja Pärssinen and the religious grounds for socialist welfare in early twentieth-century Finland0
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves0
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