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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China44
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran37
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Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts33
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel32
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review32
Women, religion and the war26
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence25
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-1920
“Beauty is your duty?” The issue of appearance in Ukrainian media discourse about servicewomen19
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women19
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws19
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities19
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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)18
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Home health care industry in India; an account of genderised labour in commercial health care economy15
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A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics14
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil14
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience14
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?13
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms13
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity12
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control12
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident11
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children10
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru10
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis10
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector10
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain9
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals9
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh9
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan9
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care9
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study8
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Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women8
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light8
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy8
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women7
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy7
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye7
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden7
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain7
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance7
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?7
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands7
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law6
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities6
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs6
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada6
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China6
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia6
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan6
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times6
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain6
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh6
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia5
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer5
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy5
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data5
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression5
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey5
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Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby5
“All we have to do, is do it all”: Exploring middle-career women's academic identities in Australian higher education using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis5
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany5
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach5
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal5
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics5
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo5
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students5
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music5
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender5
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye5
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester5
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education5
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions5
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children4
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status4
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?4
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws4
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work4
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation4
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South4
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study4
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty4
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders4
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms4
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle4
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India4
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–19854
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university4
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective4
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain4
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey4
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia4
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies4
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities4
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis4
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan4
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections4
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan4
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women4
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?4
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain4
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors4
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice4
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey3
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan3
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry3
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills3
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society3
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses3
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong3
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain3
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India3
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district3
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Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network3
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education3
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression3
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania3
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty3
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities3
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits3
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia3
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers3
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka3
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma3
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles3
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The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia3
Outsourcing mothering for schooling: Why Taiwanese middle-class mothers hire tutors3
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis3
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom3
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Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi3
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices2
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports2
The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community2
Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide2
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico2
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics2
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations2
The use of ‘feminism’ in the Turkish National Corpus and its social reflections2
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian2
Cases of violence against women resulting in death during divorce/separation process: Femicides in Türkiye2
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”2
“Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India”2
Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement2
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement2
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
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?2
Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers2
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye2
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Exploring the causes of violent behavior in female youth in North Macedonia: A risk factor analysis2
The annual struggle for equality: Analysis of Aurat March coverage in Pakistan's English print media (2018–2024)2
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India2
Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping2
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection2
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory2
Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right2
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India2
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal2
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces2
Anti-gender politics and European democracies' legacies of exclusion and violence2
Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions2
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network2
Negotiating between speech and silence as a form of agency: Understanding Dalit women's experiences of sexual violence in India2
Introduction: Transgression and its costs2
Notions of the ‘ideal’ schoolgirl and hybrid patterns of femininity for 10–11-year-olds in two London schools2
Effects of brand awareness and feminist message level in femvertising: An experimental study2
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan2
“That pressure is already killing you”: Exploring experiences of empowerment and disempowerment of Turkish female athletes2
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM2
Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence2
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles2
War, women and forced displacement2
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people2
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women2
#MeToo in an AI-generated deepfake sexual violence era in South Korea2
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program2
Does TMT gender balance improve firm resilience? A perspective of team conflict management2
Transnational comparison of ‘comfort women’ advocacy movements in Japan and South Korea1
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category1
Experience of violence perception among Iranian female sex workers and their strategies in confronting violence1
Examining barriers and reasons for sport retirement in women's soccer: A qualitative study1
The impacts of violence against women on choice and agency: Evidence from Ghana and Pakistan1
Are women present in history classes? Conceptions of primary and secondary feminist teachers about how to teach women's history1
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Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia: A geospatial analysis1
An assessment on surging crime, gender violence, and justice mechanisms in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh1
The role of educational attainment and educational pairings in women's marriage behavior in Turkey1
Gender segregation in parliamentary committees of Turkey: Intermediary spaces of women's political representation1
Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times1
Delegitimizing a woman politician through sexist humor in online public discourse: A discursive analysis using positioning theory1
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia1
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa1
Introduction: The future of gender regimes1
Invisibilization of the unwanted Others? Feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on the 1951 Refugee Convention’s drafting1
‘Although I had a failed marriage, I won't be a failure as a mother’: An analysis of Vietnamese single mothers' involvement in their children's schooling1
To be (different) or not to be: The role of gender in constructing diplomatic speeches1
Blaming feminists, claiming pain: Anti-feminist discourse and electoral mobilization by New Men's Solidarity in South Korea1
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
Sexual life of Spanish women during the lockdown by COVID-19: Differences according to sexual orientation?1
‘It's always that idea that everyone's trying to look like something’: Revisioning sociocultural factors in eating disorders through Photovoice1
Contagious media mobilization: The dynamics of anti-harassment activism on campus1
“A normal nation in our land”: Reproductive righteousness, redemptive politics and LGBTQIA+ opposition in contemporary Israel1
Contextualizing universal norms: Evaluating Nigeria's National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325 and women's lived realities in rural areas1
From precariousness to prostitution: Experiences of Moroccan migrant women with trafficking and sexual exploitation in agricultural settings1
Examining divorce risk through gender roles in Pakistan1
Rooting, shifting and mobilizing: Women's peacebuilding across differences in Georgia and Myanmar1
Exploring self-exclusion as a gendered barrier in Spanish universities. A mixed methodological study1
Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries1
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The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (WASH-GEM): Conceptual foundations and domains of change1
The psychological dimension of menopause among Somalia women: phenomenological study1
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes1
The mindset, lifelong learning, and gerotranscendence of elderly women in Taiwan: An exploratory study1
Inside the dark world: Women's trade and prostitution in Patricia McCormick's Sold and Awais Khan's No Honour1
Patriarchy and patriarchal customs in the Meitei Society of Manipur1
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How mumpreneurs achieve high entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and development: Evidence from China1
The relationship between cyberchondria levels, attitudes towards menopause and menopausal complaints of women in the climacteric period: Analysis with data mining1
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Zohra Drif looks back on her war experience1
When social responses for violence against women are insufficient to prevent homelessness - A perspective from Quebec (Canada)1
Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway1
Empowering women in agriculture: Critical role of gender-intentional investments in Pakistan1
Research trends on the intricate dimensions of divorce among women: A bibliometric analysis1
“Mom's a bit different”: The challenges of first-time mothers with cerebral palsy in caring for their children from birth until age three1
Locally specific matrices of domination: Towards a global theory of Intersectionalities1
Beyond economic measures: Exploring social deprivation among women in Türkiye1
“It takes work ethic to get two-piece ready”: Neoliberalism, postfeminist healthism, and aesthetic labor in U.S. pageantry1
“No strength to stop”: Persevering in fertility treatment despite repeated failures – A qualitative investigation1
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India1
When digital feminisms collide with nationalism: Theorizing “pink feminism” on Chinese social media1
Exposing pornography's true nature: A conceptual framework1
Women's political power: Global progress, persistent challenges1
Accountability for atrocity crimes in Ukraine: Gendering transitional justice1
Pricing policies and culture at two Singapore hostess bars: Is a grounded cosmopolitan ethics possible in such a setting?1
Partner's contribution to housework and couple bonding activities among Korean working women: Heterogeneity by socioeconomic status1
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