Womens Studies International Forum

Article	Citations
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“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen	50
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts	43
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran	35
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	30
Women, religion and the war	28
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	26
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	26
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	22
“There are different parts of me”: Acculturation of Gujarati women living in London and balancing two cultures	21
A social semiotic analysis of visual representation in science textbooks for Maarif Model for Turkey's century	21
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	20
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women	18
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	17
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	16
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan	16
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The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control	15
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	15
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	14
Challenging norms, facing backlash: navigating the path toward gender equality in east Asia	14
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	13
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	13
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review	11

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Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	11
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	11
Controlling women's voices: Legal repression and the silencing of the #MeToo movement in India	11
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A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	10
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh	10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	10
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care	10
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
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru	9
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	9
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	9
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	9
The performance of masculinities in the 2025 presidential elections in Romania	9
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	9
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	9
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	9
The online discourse of Arab-Bedouin girls in Israel	9
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	9
Regulating female sexuality through honor killings: A symbolic violence perspective on a girl in the river	9
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light	9
Reinterpreting religious authority: Women as Islamic jurists for addressing gender justice in Pakistan	9
Draupadi as the ‘Other’: A feminist reading through Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex	8
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	8
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	8
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia	8
The empowerment of rural Chinese women through E-commerce entrepreneurship	8
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	8
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh	8
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	8
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye	8
Who is afraid of Hong's gender? Locating the unintelligible in post-#MeToo China	8
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	8
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	8
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs	8
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain	7
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	7
Between compliance and defiance: Negotiating femininity in Satyajit Ray's Pather and	7
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby	7
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	7
Voices of resistance and solidarity: A feminist critical discourse analysis of #AuratMarch discourse on Twitter	7
Corrigendum to “So that he would not eat me’ — Navigating the single self amid shifting cultural grounds. A qualitative study of never-married Polish women's singlehood” [Women's Studies International	7
From hours to agency: Time use as a proxy for gendered work and well-being of women	7
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	7
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	7
Exploring the links between patriarchy, informal networks, and corruption tolerance: Evidence from Kazakhstan	7
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	7
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: Categorizing and understanding sexual abuse against women ridesharing drivers	7
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	7

Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	7
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	7
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	7
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times	7
Legalizing anti-gender ideology and civil society resistance in Turkey	6
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	6
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	6
Relationship between emotion regulation and aggression mediated by criminal thinking in women convicted of violent offenses	6
Navigating overqualification: Syrian female refugees with university degrees in the labour market	6
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	6
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	6
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	6
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China	6
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	6
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	6
The hidden chains: Exploring pathways of women trafficking in Bangladesh	6
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	6
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty	6
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	6
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	6
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	6
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	6
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	6
Understanding involuntary return of Bangladeshi women migrants from Saudi Arabia: A qualitative study	6
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	6
Transgressing “docile bodies”: Women's poetry in Bangla little magazines, 1950s–1970s	6
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	6
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	6
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	5
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	5
What remains: Crisis, neoliberal capture, and care among Moldovan feminists	5
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Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	5
“She passed by”: How young Palestinian men talk about women's looks in public and private	5
Impacts of mobile phone usage on the income of women food vendors in rural areas of Tanzania	5
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	5
Behind the wheel and under the lens: How gender stereotypes drive perception in Türkiye	5
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	5
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	5
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	5
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	5
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	5
Democratic backsliding and the shifting dynamics of empowerment: The case of the All-Poland Women's Strike	5
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	5
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	5
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China	5
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	5
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	4
Urinary incontinence in elite women's artistic gymnastics: A qualitative case study of athletes' perspectives and management strategies	4
The cost of children: Material and social deprivation among divorced women’s households in Türkiye	4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	4
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey	4
Finding personal growth in single motherhood in Moscow in uncertain times	4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India	4
Weaving culture: Indigenous women of Northeast India as agents of tradition and identity	4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities	4
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia	4
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule	4
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom	4
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers	4
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities	4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	4
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	4
Gender discourse and femadvertising in India: A multi-modal discourse analysis	4
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Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain	4
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty	4
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles	4
Arts-based methods for resistance and decolonization in refugee women's research	4
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network	4
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district	4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis	4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	4
Justice or tradition? Cross-national media framing of honor killings in India, Pakistan, and global outlets	4

“That pressure is already killing you”: Exploring experiences of empowerment and disempowerment of Turkish female athletes	3
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits	3
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement	3
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia	3
Notions of the ‘ideal’ schoolgirl and hybrid patterns of femininity for 10–11-year-olds in two London schools	3
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Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence	3
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”	3
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations	3
“Every miscarriage is a work accident”: Theorising miscarriage through a labour lens	3
#MeToo in an AI-generated deepfake sexual violence era in South Korea	3
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Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right	3
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian	3
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM	3
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(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program	3
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education	3
Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping	3
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong	3
Introduction: Transgression and its costs	3
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis	3
Exploring the causes of violent behavior in female youth in North Macedonia: A risk factor analysis	3
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women	3
Information and communication technology (ICT) and media exposures: Implications for women's decision-making authority in the Nigerian household	3
Digital sisterhood: Live streaming feminism and network resilience in China	3
The use of ‘feminism’ in the Turkish National Corpus and its social reflections	3
Late diagnosis of autistic women in Spain: A participatory study	3
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people	3
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression	3
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics	3
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry	3
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection	3
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses	3
“When you're the femme, you're the mummy”	3
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India	3
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society	3
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?	3
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania	3
Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement	3
Effects of brand awareness and feminist message level in femvertising: An experimental study	3
Cases of violence against women resulting in death during divorce/separation process: Femicides in Türkiye	3
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma	3
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico	3
Introductory essay: Race, gender and queering/querying sport and movement cultures	3
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India	3
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills	3
Woman in the mirror: Kurdish women's century long search for recognition in Ata Nahai's novels	3
“Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India”	3
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles	3
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory	3
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal	3
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan	3
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan	3
War, women and forced displacement	3
Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times	2
“It takes work ethic to get two-piece ready”: Neoliberalism, postfeminist healthism, and aesthetic labor in U.S. pageantry	2
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye	2
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India	2
Does TMT gender balance improve firm resilience? A perspective of team conflict management	2
Between a rock and a hard place: The EU's gender regime in times of crisis	2
Gender, religion, and singlehood: A feminist analysis of ultra-Orthodox women's experiences beyond expected marriage age	2
The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision	2
“Leave me out of it and raise my salary”: Invisible work in the labor market and the gender wage gap	2
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice	2
Japan's new anti-harassment law and the ironic legitimation of workplace harassment against women managers	2
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Beyond home and office: Women's quest for identity and self-actualization in urban third places in Jakarta	2
Gender-based violence and the cultural ethos of Pashtunwali: A qualitative study of Pashtun women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan	2
When home becomes classroom: The shifting roles of Korean immigrant mothers in the management of children's education during COVID-19 in the US	2
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Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions	2
Post-communist perspectives on decolonial feminism	2
Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide	2
Partial gender quotas: The disparity in women's representation in Taiwan's legislature and cabinet	2
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces	2
Shaping gender disparity in childcare between dual-earner parents in urban China: An exploratory study of influencing factors	2
Structural vulnerability and neoliberal subjectivities of low-income binational families in Singapore	2
Gender differences in risk aversion: Evidence from private pension system in Türkiye	2
Perpetuation of rape myths through news reporting on Intimate partner violence: A Transitivity Analysis of Asma Aziz case	2
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Exploring the root causes of sexual harassment against women at the workplaces in Pakistan	2
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women	2
Retraction notice to “Gendering cybersecurity: Feminist digital activism against gender-based violence in Turkey” [Women. Stud. Int. Forum 114 (2026) 103224]	2
Potential alliance or actual estrangement: The struggles of Chinese feminists	2
Rethinking women, peace, and security through the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 & National Action Plans: A study of Nepal and Sri Lanka	2
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave	2
The annual struggle for equality: Analysis of Aurat March coverage in Pakistan's English print media (2018–2024)	2
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia	2
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes	2
New frontiers of parenthood: Sperm smuggling, IVF, and gender roles in Palestine	2
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies: The case of Hungary	2
Mobilizing the women, peace and security agenda for refugee women's participation: Committees and cooperatives in Turkey	2
Gendered pathways of power: Women's political representation amid democratic backsliding in India, Hungary and Turkey	2
When digital feminisms collide with nationalism: Theorizing “pink feminism” on Chinese social media	2