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Papers

(The median citation count of Womens Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Girls Who Persist and Resist: Resistance in Girlhood Studies and Girls’ Literature	7
Rescripting the Coming-of-Age Narrative in Eudora Welty’s “Moon Lake”	5
Birthing New Black Sentences: Reflections on Black Maternal Health and Healing in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha for Our Present Time	4
Living After, and Before, the End of the World: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth	3
Singh, Lata, and Shashank Shekhar Sinha, editors. Gender in Modern India: History, Culture, Marginality .	3
The New Woman’s Fantasy About Adoption and Transnormative Family in George Egerton’s “The Spell of the White Elf”	3
Reframing “Spinsterhood” in Palestine: Societal Stigma and the Marginalization of Unmarried Women	2
The New Woman Vampire and Marriage in Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire	2
Dirschauer, Marlene. Modernist Waterscapes: Water, Imagination and Materiality in the Works of Virginia Woolf .Dirschauer, Marlene. *Mode*	2
The Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center; Or, on Hearing Your Mom Described as “The Fucking Bravest Bitch I Knew”	2
The New Woman as an Image of the Public Intellectual	1
Science, Women, and the Mother Tongue: Translating Knowledge for 19 ^th -Century Readers	1
Reproductive Self-Governance: Advocating for an Anarcho-Feminist Model of Abortion Access	1
Correction	1
Sick Sympathies: Pathological Affect in Stowe’sDred	1
“I’ve never liked mimeo”: Eileen Myles, Little Magazines, and the “Umpteenth-Generation New York School”	1
Hamada, Maya. Shōjo Chūgoku: Kakareta Jogakusei to Kaku Jogakusei no Hyakunen (少女中国:書かれた女学生と書く女学生の百年 [ Girl China: A Century of Fe	1
Gender, loss, and the erosion of bodily capital: A study with women diagnosed with late stage breast cancer	1
Poetic Justice and Poetic Forgiveness as Feminine Ethics in Lee Chang-dong’s Milyang (2007) and Poetry (2010)	1
The Subaltern Woman at Home: Female Silence Redefined in Alifa Rifaat’s Short Fiction	1
Ma, Hua. Becoming Beautiful: Female Beauty and Beauty Practices in Contemporary China.	1
The Marimacho Invasion: Sports, Masculine Femininity, and Fashion in Fin-de-Siècle Mexico and Argentina	1
“I Invented the Cure”: Poetic Catharsis, Self-Therapy, and Collective Reparation in Anne Sexton’s Early Poetry	1
A Polygynous World, a Woman’s Voice: Exploring Female Experience in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter	1
Elkins, Amy E. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present Elkins, Amy E. *Crafting Feminism from Literary Modern*	1

Bad Mentors and Terrible Teachers in Flannery O’Connor	1
Flannery O’Connor in 1964: A Firestorm Inside and Out	1
Perry Eleanor. *Radical Elegies: White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropolitics*	1
Introduction	1
Schipper, Mineke. Widows: A Global History.	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Everybody’s Kathy: Acker, Laing, and the Autofictional Turn	1
Peeled Bananas, Hot Shrimp, and Honeysuckle on Trains, Buses, Wagons, and Automobiles: Symbolic Sexual Trans/Portations in Eudora Welty’s Fiction	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Flannery O’Connor’s Gothic Farm and the Women Who Run It: The Transference from Idyll to Isolation	1
Notes on Contributors	1
Monstrous Others: Black Girl Refusal in Afrofuturist Young Adult Literature	1
From Patriarchal Religious Discourse to Feminine Readings: The Hermeneutic Impasse of Women’s Rights	1
“Be the change that you want to see in the world”: A Moral Economy of Volunteering for Female Empowerment in Brazil	1
Intersectionality, Whiteness, Womanhood, Transgression, and Transformation in Eudora Welty’s Stories of Southern Girlhood	1
“Naturally a Hog Should Be on All Fours”: Political Community and the Animal in Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation”	1
Freeman, Margaret H. Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading	1
Mdege, Norita. Cinematic Portrayals of African Women and Girls in Political Conflict	1
Counter-Hegemonic Hegemonic Writing: Heroic Epic Tradition and the Postwar Black Female Subjectivity in Gwendolyn Brooks’ “The Anniad”	1
The Problematic (Im)Persistence of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Popular Culture and YA Fiction	1
Fatma Aliye: At the Intersection of Secular and Islamic Feminism	1
Attribution	1
Breaking the Wall: Ecofeminist Reconfigurations of Gender, Nature, and Survival in Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall	0
Kristi Branham and Kelly L. Reames, editors. Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture Kristi Branham and Kelly L. Reames, editors. <	0
“I want to do something with my life”: Reading Resistance in South Asian Girlhoods Portrayed in Keeping Corner, Climbing the Stairs, and Neela: Victory Song	0
The Lesbian Poet	0
Virgin Territory: Configuring Female Virginity in Early Christianity, by Kelto Lillis and Julia	0
Social Action, Welfare State, and Religious Charity: Flannery O’Connor’s Political Conservatism	0
Contesting Postfeminism: Feminist Address and Relational Politics in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ^*	0
Contested Narratives: Imperial Paternalism and Nationalist Resistance in Widow Remarriage Novels in Colonial India	0
Beyond the Master Subject: Montezuma Red and Feminist Aesthetic Resistance to Fascism	0
Discourse Analysis of Feminism in the Chinese Stand-Up Comedy Show Rock & Roast	0
Venereal Disease as Metaphor: Pathologization of Vietnamese Women in Ahn Jung-hyo’sWhite Badge	0
It’s Not About Pronouns	0
Moore, Lisa. Our Transgenic Future: Spider Goats, Genetic Modification, and the Will to Change Nature	0
Lambertsson Björk, Eva, et al., editors. Women and Fairness: Navigating an Unfair World	0
Revisiting Trauma, Ethics, and Identity Reconstruction in Toni Morrison’s Home	0
Gender Depiction and Empowerment in Children’s Literature: A Pakistani Context	0
Notes on Contributors	0
“I Am a Bad Mother”: Constructions of Motherhood in Women’s Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Fiction	0
Witches in the Wilderness: Seeing Beyond the Nation-State in Toni Morrison’s Paradise	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Her Name, Her Identity: Exploring the Challenges of Kurdish Women with Minority-Specific Names in Turkish Society	0
Interracial Sexual Desire and Miscegenation in Victoria Cross’sAnna Lombard	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Eileen Myles Now	0
Talia Bhatt. Trans/Rad/Fem: Essays on Transfeminism . 2025	0
Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran	0
Moon and Clouds	0
Marita Golden’sAnd Do Remember Meas Womanist Homage to Black Women and the Civil Rights Movement	0

Gilmore, Leigh, and Elizabeth Marshall. Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing	0
The Decline of Cultural Christianity and the Ascendancy of the God of Self: A Study in a Literary Trend of the 1920s	0
Home and the World: Women for and Against Fascism	0
Precarity and Relational Autonomy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’sAmericanah	0
Behind the Veil: The Dialectics of Female Identity in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene , Book I	0
On Foremothers, Muses, and Black Feminist Theorizing	0
Telling the Truth Through Fiction: Jesmyn Ward and Parchman, Mississippi State Penitentiary	0
Degenderizing Modernity in Ling Shuhua’s Boudoir School Writing: With a Comparison to Virginia Woolf	0
Black Girlhood Persists: Pecola’s Persistence as Non/Child in Toni Morrison’sThe Bluest Eye¹	0
Higginson and Dickinson: The Soldier and the Poet*	0
Brittain, Vera, and Winifred Holtby. *Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby*	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Visions, Saints, and Sacraments:Uncle Tom’s Cabinand Catholicism	0
Brownstein, Rachel M. American Born: An Immigrant’s Story, A Daughter’s Memoir .Brownstein, Rachel M. *American Born: An Immigrant’s Stor*	0
Le Vefügbar ¹ aux Enfers , the Art of Overcoming Hell	0
(Un)Making Gender, (Un)Making the Nation: Feminist Literary Approaches to the Armenian Genocide	0
Abel, Elizabeth. Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies	0
The Global South and Its Discontents: Unmasking the Capitalocene in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann	0
Altruistic Surrogacy and Reproductive Futurism in Falguni Kothari’s The Object of Your Affections (2019)	0
Looking Back	0
Punk Persistence: Subversive Change and Continued Resistance in Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk	0
“Welty’s White Girlhoods In/As History”	0
Class, Crisis, and the Commons in Eileen Myles’ Late Work	0
Beyond the Veil of the Orient: Harriet Low’s Macau Diaries and the Feminine Discourse of 19th Century Sino-American Encounters	0
Rowe, Bruce M. and Diane P. Levine. A Concise Introduction to Linguistics .	0
“‘Only’ is a Bad Habit …”: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Utilization of Philosophical Motifs and Issues of Gender in “Head and Shoulders”	0
Feral Intimacy: Feminist Transformations Through Solitary Forest Walks	0
Exploding Myths of Female Desire for the Twenty-First Century: The Bacchantes of Euripides, Proust, and Minard	0
The Gendered Fracture of Narrative Voice in The Yellow Wallpaper : Fragmentation as Resistance and Reflection of Patriarchal Oppression	0
Women-Centered Diaspora in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy	0
The “Most Dangerous Thing Around”? Representations of Women Soldiers in US War on Terror Novels: Sand Queen , Be Safe I Love You , and	0
Biography of a Friendship: Maryat Lee and Flannery O’Connor ¹	0
Reading Austen’s Fiction as Modern: Women’s Outward and Social Movements in Jane Austen’s Novels	0
Sapphic Poetry on the Kobiety Kobietom [Women for Women] Website – Affects, Amateurism, and Queerness (Selected Examples)	0
Precarious Lives and Resisting Women: A Butlerian Reading of Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age	0
Cancerous Body Begetting Humor: Wisenberg’s Adventures of Cancer Bitch	0
Hoag, Ann Catherine. Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era: Changing Times, Changing Spaces	0
“It’s you! It’s me! It’s us!”: The Accidental Path of Horror in Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor	0
Demon Copperhead Visions of the South and its Women	0
Mirror, Mirror on the Water: Water Imaginaries of and by Women in Contemporary English- and Dutch-Language Poetry	0
Wilson, Janet M., Schmidt-Haberkamp, Barbara, Dwivedi, Om Prakash, editors. Ecocritical Explorations of the Climate Crisis: Planetary Precarity and Future Habitability	0
“Feminism Means Having the Same Rights as Everyone”: Exploring Feminism from Women with Intellectual Disabilities’ Perspectives	0
Forum: “After Morrison”	0
The Women’s Legal Rights Index: A New Approach to Measuring Women’s Political Power	0
Home to Mother	0
Christmas Geese	0
Mother Liberty	0
Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century	0
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, edited by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel	0
Revisiting Asymmetries in the Representation of Portuguese Women News Anchors	0
Marso, Lori Jo. Feminism and the Cinema of Experience	0
Superior Motherhood: The Utilization of Motherhood in the Interactions between Missionary Women and Korean Women, 1884-1910	0
Stowe’s Slavery and Stowe’s Capitalism: Forced Reproductive Labor in Uncle Tom’s Cabin	0
Pacific Sunset	0
Gaskin, Richard. Othello and the Problem of Knowledge: Reading Shakespeare Through Wittgenstein.	0
“No, it was a girl. A woman”: A Study of Indigenous Resilience and Girlhood in Katherena Vermette’sThe Break	0
“Oye” Como Va: A Review of Oye from Melissa Mogollon	0
Reframing Visual Narrative: The Intersectional Gaze in Nina Menkes’s Magdalena Viraga	0
Girls Who Persist: Girls, Literature for Girls, and the Politics of Persistence	0
DeClue, Jennifer. Visitation: The Conjure Work of Black Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema	0
Shiny Collisions: Editing as Serious Humor in dodgems	0
Reconstructing Women’s Musical Narratives: Strengths and Western-Centric Tensions in The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music Since 1900	0
Frazer, Elizabeth. Shakespeare and the Political Way .	0
“The Journey is Over. Love to All.”	0
Negotiating Power: Discipline, Resistance, and the Politics of the Body in And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses	0
Confronting the Inessential: The Projection of the Self in the Writing of Sylvia Plath	0
Dance as Queer Neoliberal Critique Choreographing Beyond Disposable Representations of Migrant Domestic Workers	0
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the “Chicas Raras.”, edited by Simón-Alegre, Ana I. and Lou Charnon-Deutsch	0
Wing It	0
Performing Toxic Womanhood: Patriarchy, Infidelity, and the “Good Woman” Trope in Yoruba Nollywood	0
Eudora Welty in Cloche	0
Subverting Gender Norms: Cross-Dressing and Power in Kilpatrick’s The Darker Passions: The Picture of Dorian Gray	0
Mushtaq, Banu. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories, translated by Deepa Bhasthi.	0
She/Her	0
Carney, Jo Eldridge. Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations	0
Notes on Contributors	0
In the Face of White Motherhood and Techno-Orientalism: Butterfly Mother, Robot Daughter, and the Asian American Custody Narrative in Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mother	0
Siem Reap Spiral II	0
The Unspeakable in Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination	0
Driving and Catastrophe with Eileen Myles	0

Embodied Journalism: Representing Syrian Women’s Experiences of Physical Violence in the Context of Conflict	0
Steggle, Matthew. Speed and Flight in Shakespeare .	0
Seeing in the Dark (Grave): From Emerson to Dickinson	0
Ocean Beach 2012	0
Toni Morrison, American Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning author, editor and professor. Edinburgh International Book Festival	0
How Female Singers in Iran Challenge Restriction by Retrieving Collective Memory: Their Genre, Visual Representation, and Different Implications for the National and International Audience	0
Voiced Identity: Dialogic Power and Character Dynamics Between Lucy and M. Paul in Villette (1853)	0
Eileen Myles in Conversation with Maggie Nelson	0
Flannery O’Connor at Age 3	0
“What about Justice?”: Persisting Girls in Young Adult Rape Fiction	0
Nevertheless, They Persist: The Iconicity and Radical Politics of Malala Yousafzai	0
For Eileen Myles	0
Trust	0
Chandran, Usha. Gender Discrimination at Work in Urban China: The Paradox of Equality and Difference in the Women’s Liberation Movement	0
Laborde, Katheryn Krotzer. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan.	0
“A Flop as a Woman”: Carnivalesque Unruliness and the Disruption of Normative Femininity in Protima Bedi’s Timepass	0
From Mining Ore to Uncovering Gilt: Cecelia Tichi’s Gilded Age Novels	0
Populism and Surrogacy in Spain	0
Literary Forgery and Écriture Féminine in Lee Israel’s Can You Ever Forgive Me?	0
“I Only Need Sunlight and Water”: Becoming Ethics and Local Corporeal Resistance of East Asia in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Dismembering and Dichotomizing Women in Svava Jakobsdóttir’s and Ásta Sigurðardóttir’s Surreal Stories	0
(Wo)men’s Agency and a Critique of Modernity: A Chinese Adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Jingjing Chen	0
Siem Reap Spiral II	0
Breaking Boxes: Subverting Stereotypes in Dabba Cartel (2025)	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing	0
Towards a Feminization of Time in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours (1998) and Sahar Al-Mouji’s the Musk of the Hill (2017)	0
Polyphonic Narrative, Feminist Utopia, and London Imagination: Artistic Experimentations in Girl, Woman, Other	0
Introduction to Special Issue: Flannery O'Connor's Difficult Women	0
Patchwork Politics: Black Women Stitching Their Own Identities in Eudora Welty’s Writing	0
Jennifer R. Gross, editor. Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable.	0
Finley, Cheryl, et al., editors. Women and Migration(s) II	0
The Persistence of Pseudonyms: Women Writers, Male Pen Names and Politics of Publication	0
Louisa May Alcott’s “Enigmas”: Trans Feeling in the Nineteenth Century	0
Strategic Female Entrepreneurship: Love, Self-Interest, and Gender Norms in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia	0
Unfinished Resistance	0
Girls Save the World: Activism, Persistence, and Solidarity in Hemispheric Latin(x) American Youth Literature	0
Telling New Stories: Disability and Determination in Contemporary Young Adult Fairy Tales	0
A Study of Aviatrixes Holding Leadership Roles in the Historical Phases of Aeronautics	0
Allukian, Kristin. Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869	0
For This Moment and Beyond: Solidarity, Sense-Making, and Survivorship at the Theater with Anna Moench’s “Man of God”	0
The Evolution of Female Audiences’ Perception of Female Superheroes in Films	0
“There is No Truth About Women”: Narrating Truth, Gossip, and Women’s Discourse	0
Notes on Contributors	0
(Re) Assessing Trauma, Race, and the Resurrection in Dilsey’s Section of The Sound and the Fury	0
Arab Women’s Elegy Writing: Inheritance and Reconstruction	0
From the Margin to the Fold: The Imprint of Toni Morrison on the Writing of Akwaeke Emezi	0
Self Portrait	0
Seeing Carson: Lesbian Visibility in Jenn Shapland’s My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Madeleine Albanese	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Where the Forest Speaks in Her Voice: An Indic Ecofeminist Reflection on Vanvasi Women, Ecology, and Epistemic Justice	0
Suffering, Healing, and Relationship: Innovations in Harriet Beecher Stowe Scholarship	0
Ecological Crisis and Feminist Awakening in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior : Gender, Empowerment, and Environmental Interconnection	0
Laughter as Reprisal: The Feminist Take on Subversive Narration and Discursivity Through Humor in Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife	0
(Un)learning Qin, Dark/Soft Wisdom, and Female (M)use: Chenglian and Boya by Lihai Huang	0
Strength of Mind, Self-Command, and Elasticity of Mind in Jane Austen’s Persuasion	0
Chinese Women in Hanfu: A Gendered Subject Narrative in the Cultural Nationalist Movement	0
Vienne–Guerrin, Nathalie. The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World. .Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie. *The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespear*	0
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova	0
Better to See You With: Perspectives on Flannery O’Connor, Selected and New	0
Shealy, Daniel, editor. *Little Women at 150*	0
The Sphinx’s Riddle: Representation of Women on the National Theatre at Home Platform	0
Spatial Oppression and Resistance in Dystopian Spaces: Exploring Power Structures in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments (2019)	0
Rokeya, Begum. Sultana’s Dream	0
Roy, Srila. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India Roy, Srila. *Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer P*	0
Reflections	0
Beauty, Belonging, and Burden: Palestinian Women’s Cosmetic Practices	0
Perez, Caroline Criado. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men .	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Snipe	0
Spatial Mapping, History, and the Witch in Winterson’s The Daylight Gate	0
Life as the Ideal; The Requirements of Creating a Feminist Politics in Contemporary Iran	0
Cleghorn Elinor. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World	0
Iranian Kurdish Lullabies, Gendered Voice, and the Poetics of Coded Emotion in Iranian Folk Culture	0
“Objection to Roast Chicken” ¹ : Feminist-Vegan Incidents in Daphne du Maurier’s “The Chamois” and “The Blue Lenses”	0
“Mother Africa” and Her Rebellious Children: Exploring Unspoken Words in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning	0
What the Soil Remembers: Silence, Trauma, and Spatial Memory in The Hour Past Midnight	0
Women on the Edge: Gender Representation in Mare of Easttown	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven, edited by Jennifer McFarlane-Harris and Emily Hamilton-Honey	0
Vogel, Maria A., and Linda Arnell, editors. Living Like a Girl: Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond .Maria A. Vogel, and Linda Arnell,	0
Signifying Dog: Afterglow’s Afterglow	0
The Olfactory Education of Young Women in Nineteenth-Century France	0
The Roles of Women in Endogenous Peacemaking Institutions: The Case of Borana Women in Southern Ethiopia	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Every Covid Has a Silver Lining: Women’s Lived Experiences and Potential Feminist Futures beyond the Pandemic	0
Notes on Contributors	0
Sex Differences from a Neurofeminist Perspective: Women and the Debate on Neurosexism	0
Dutta, Bitopi. Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya: Gendered Transitions	0
The Wicked Stepmother and the Paradox of Motherhood in George Egerton’s “Wedlock”	0
The Intricate Bonds of Sylvia Plath’s Poetry: A Journey with Attachment Theory	0
Statement of Retraction: A Voice of Her Own: The Persistence of Muslim American Women in Rohina Malik’s Unveiled	0
Washing Machines Won’t Save Us: A Review of After Work: A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time	0
Female Anxiety and Struggle: From Victorian Gothic Traditions to 1940s Hollywood Gothic Romance Films	0