OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Politics 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating Human Rights, Feminism, and History: Egyptian Feminist Activists’ Demands for Constitutional Equality, 2012–2014	37
Servants of Production: The Politics of Domestic Workers’ Labor Rights	31
Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity: A Gendered Relational Reading of Settler Colonial Containment inShubenacadie Indian Band v. Canada	28
Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics	26
Complexities and Nuances in Radical Right Voters’ (Anti)Feminism	16
Working from Home and Parental Childcare Division: Evidence from Two Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Long-Term Trends in the Gender Income Gap within Couples: West Germany, 1978–2011	14
The Hierarchy of Care Work: How Immigrants Influence the Gender-Segregated Labor Market	13
Explaining the Adoption of Care Policies in Costa Rica and Uruguay: A Multiple Streams Approach	13
The Care Subsidy to the Labor Market: Rethinking the Care Diamond	12
Empowered Homeowners, Responsible Mothers: Promises and Pitfalls of Maternalist Housing Provision in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida Program	11
De-democratization and the Politics of Knowledge: Unpacking the Cultural Marxism Narrative	10
The Scandal of Women’s Emancipation. Femonationalism, Right-Wing Sexual Politics, and Anti-Feminism	10
Whose Rights? Domestic Workers Organizing in Massachusetts	10
Making Mothers Stay at Home? Analyzing the Impact of Partisan Cueing on Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment	9
Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Hungary: Progress in Recognition and Backlash in Policies	9
Moral A-Listers in a Moral Economy of Suspicion: Promoting Gender Projects, Re-establishing the Gender Order, and Forging Gendered Subjectivities on Online US Spousal Reunification Forums	9
Symbolic and Transformative: Alignments Toward Feminicídio Legal Reform inside the Brazilian Police	9
The Problematization of Migrant Maternity: Implications of the “Passport Baby” Narrative in the Canadian Context	8
Motherhood Penalty—Beyond Bias? From Stereotypes to Substitutability Structures	8
The Social and Political Lives of Women in an Egalitarian Matricultural Society: The Case of Western Sahara	8
Between Activism and Academy: Lobby and Advocacy About Care in Latin America	8
Mainstreaming Gender in Policy Narratives: Childcare Policies during Latin America’s Left Turn	8
Framing Care in Global and Regional Policy Spaces	7
Gender Sensitivity in the National Roma Integration Strategies of Member States of the European Union	7

Gender Dynamics During the Colombian Armed Conflict	7
Doing Family Before the State. Does Recognition of De Facto Families Lead to More Inclusive Migration Law Practices?	7
A Call to (Caring) Arms: A Response to The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence	7
Becoming Actors of Change: A Gender-Disaggregated Analysis of the Effects of the Israeli Oppression on Women in Palestine	7
The Heterogeneous Effect of COVID-19 on the Gender Gap in Iran	6
Gendered Perceptions of Personality Traits, Policy Stereotypes, and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties: Lessons from Turkey	6
Challenging the Gender Regime through Small-scale Activism: Alternative Citizen-Led Projects in Kurdistan/Türkiye	6
Gender Equality Policies “Confined”: Adopted Frames in the Prison System in Spain	6
Protected through Part-time Employment? Labor Market Status, Domestic Responsibilities, and the Life Satisfaction of German Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Paternal Leave Duration and the Closure of the Gendered Family Work Gap	6
Are Women Discriminated Against in Countries with Extensive Family Policies? A Piece of the “Welfare State Paradox” Puzzle from Sweden	6
Authoritarian Othering Back and Feminist Subversion: Rethinking Transnational Feminism in Russia and Serbia	5
Intersectional Repertoires of Coping with Political Violence	5
Autocratization and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Rights in Brazil: Contextualizing Attacks and Resistances under Bolsonaro’s Government	5
Impact of the Multifactorial Crisis on Food Security, Care, and Quality of Life of Older People in Cuba	5
Parental Leave Reforms in South Korea, 1995–2021: Policy Translation and Institutional Legacies	5
A Critical Feminist Perspective on Climate Change Adaptation Plans: Mapping Municipal Recognition, Dialog, and Budgeting	5
What About Fertility? The Unintentional Pro-natalism of a Nordic Country	5
Paradox or Mitigation? Childless and Parent Gender Gaps across British, Finnish, and German Wage Distributions	5
Voting Right? Analyzing Electoral Homonationalism of LGBTIQ* Voters in Austria and Germany	5
Between Peripherality and Privilege: “Women Wage Peace” as a Case Study of Intersectionality Practices in Women’s Movements	4
A Multi-scalar Feminist Project for a Care Right: Angles for a Deepening Understanding	4
Depletion through Social Reproduction and Contingent Coping in the Lived Experience of Parents on Universal Credit in England	4
Gender and Race on the Frontline: Experiences of Health Workers in Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Marketization, Regulation, and Equality: Towards an Analytical Framework for Understanding the Equality Impact of Public Procurement	4
Not All Good Is Care, Not All Evil Is Uncaring—A Political Comment on The Care Manifesto	4
Legal Mobilization and Framing Transformation: The Feminist Turn to the Law in Mexico	4
Austerity Policies and the Strategic Silencing of Their Gendered Effects: Evidence from Spain	4
Violence against Women—The Case of Divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel	4
Unpaid Work in Uruguay: Between the Commitment of a Care System and the Setbacks of the Pandemic	3
Integrating Gender-Based Analysis Plus into Policy Responses to COVID-19: Lived Experiences of Lockdown in British Columbia, Canada	3
The Woman Question in the “Stupid Box”: An Analysis of the Politics of Women’s Representation in Pakistani Popular Media	3
“This Patriarchal, Machista and Unequal Culture of Ours”: Obstacles to Confronting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence	3
(In)Stability of Gender Attitudes in Times of Family Policy Change—A Latent Class Analysis of Germany, Austria, and Sweden	3
Care Policy Determinants and Effects: Convergences and Divergences Across the Americas	3
Double-edged Swords? Party Ideology, Activism, and Visibility in the Careers of Italian LGBT+ Politicians	3
Beyond Electoral Rules: Women Political Rights in Mexico and Brazil since Democratic Transitions	3
Corrigendum to: “Caring for the Mine”: Women in Capitalist Accumulation in the Peruvian Andes	3
Political Representation and Intersectionality: Perspectives of Ethnically/Racially Minoritized Citizens	3
Gender Balance on State Boards in Ireland: To the Forefront of Progress or Concealing the Status Quo?	3
“Maybe We Should Start Paying the Hours Properly”: State Violence and Ambivalent Moments of Enforced Emancipation of Refugee Women	3
Being a Woman Politician on the Isle of Man: How Smallness Explains Political Culture	3
Toward a More Careful Future: Thoughts on The Care Manifesto	3
Special Section: Contemporary Forms of Illiberal and Anti-feminist Mobilizations of Gender	3
Gender Essentialism at Work? The Case of Norwegian Childcare Workers	2
Beyond Clueless Mothers: Israeli “Women Wage Peace” Activists’ Perceptions of Why Women Are Key to Peacemaking	2
A Comparison of the Socioeconomic and Gendered Organization of Social Reproduction in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1973–2013	2
Challenges to Democratic Practices and Discourses in the European Parliament: Feminist Perspectives on the Politics of Political Groups	2
Feminism at the Crossroads of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism: Restructuring Women’s Labor in the Context of Family Leave Reform in Finland	2
Housewives and Entrepreneurs: Local Coalitions of Power and the Political Construction of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Turkey	2

Promotion Programs for Women’s Entrepreneurship in Spain: A “Transformational Entrepreneurial Journey”	2
Governance by Gaslight: The Reproductive Politics of the Two-Child Limit	2
Women’s Empowerment via Women’s Cooperatives: An Ethnographic Account from Turkey	2
Traveling Through Different Transitions in Latin America and Post-Socialist Europe	2
From Human Rights to Emancipation: Four Decades of Feminist Movement Configurations in Latin America	2
From Criticism to Collaboration: Politics of Naturalist Mothering in Turkey	2
The Paradox of the AKP’s Gender Regime: Gender Identity of Religious Women in Türkiye	2
Lone Motherhood and Welfare Feminism: A Comparative Case Study of Iceland and Denmark	2
Trans* Women’s Experiences of Epistemic Misrecognition in Swedish Law and Society	2
Transitional Moments, Conflicts over Gender, and the Meanings of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and South America: A Comparative Agenda	2
In Memoriam: Júlia Szalai (1948–2022)	2
Unlikely Feminist Coalitions: Islamist and Secularist Women’s Organizing in Tunisia	2
School Meals, Policy Protagonism, and the Politics of Care in the Americas	2
Strong Gender Contract, Weak Institutions: Gender Pay Gap in Slovenia and Czechia	2
From Equality to Economic Development: Culture, Intersectionality, and Justifications for Women’s Entrepreneurship Policy in the United States, 1973–1988	2
Discursive Activists or Patriarchal Bargainers? Religion, Gender, and Neoliberal Governance in the “New” Turkey	2
Devaluing Women’s Lives through Law: Familyism Ideologies in Abortion and Violence against Women Laws in El Salvador	1
Risk, Reward, and Resistance: Navigating Work and Family under Hungary’s New Pronatalism	1
Toward a Caring Society? A Framework for Analyzing the Impact of Early Childhood Policies Based on Chile and Uruguay	1
Multiple Dimensions of Gender Ideologies: How They Relate to Normative Judgments of the Gender Division of Parental Leave	1
Language, Publication, and the Advancement of Feminist Praxis	1
Unequal Priorities: How Intra-household Resource Allocation and Means-tested Benefits Affect Capabilities in poor Families	1
Occupational Transitions among Direct Care Workers in the United States	1
Authoritarian Populism and Patriarchal Logics: Nicaragua’s Engendered Politics	1
Lockdown on Peace? COVID-19’s Impact on Women Peacebuilders	1
Constructions of Care in EU Economic, Social, and Gender Equality Policy: Care Providers and Care Recipients versus the Needs of the Economy?	1
State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada	1
Special Section on The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence	1
The Motherhood Penalty in Spain: The Effect of Full- and Part-Time Parental Leave on Women’s Earnings	1
Has a Phenomenon Been Born? Causes, Consequences, and Strategies of Gendering De-democratization in Turkey	1
National Care Experts and Public Daughters: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in South Korea and the United States	1
Fragments of a Unique and Bold Trajectory	1
Erratum to: Protected through Part-time Employment? Labor Market Status, Domestic Responsibilities, and the Life Satisfaction of German Women during the COVID-19 Pandemic	1
Actions for Care: A Canadian Approach	1
“Diversity Within”: The Problems with “Intersectional” White Feminism in Practice	1
Persistence of Abortion Stigma Inscribed in the Legal Framework: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in Poland	1
Discourses of Social Inclusion in Chilean Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy	1
Do Men Care about Childcare? Women’s Relative Resources and Men’s Preferences for Work–Family Reconciliation Policies	1
Toward a Model of Universal Care, One Manifesto at a Time	1
Making Parenting Leave Accessible to Fathers: Political Actors and New Social Rights, 1965–2016	1