Womens Studies International Forum

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	67
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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	36
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China	32
Women, religion and the war	29
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel	28
Evaluation of problems faced by women construction workers during COVID-19	26
A social semiotic analysis of visual representation in science textbooks for Maarif Model for Turkey's century	24
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence	23
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities	21
“There are different parts of me”: Acculturation of Gujarati women living in London and balancing two cultures	18
“It follows you home”: Emotional and psychological impacts of dating-app harassment on Indian women	17
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil	17
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review	17
Editorial Board	16
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident	16
Challenging norms, facing backlash: navigating the path toward gender equality in east Asia	15
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience	14
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children	14
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws	13
Editorial Board	13
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain	11
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis	11

Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector	11
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A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics	11
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms	11
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
Reinterpreting religious authority: Women as Islamic jurists for addressing gender justice in Pakistan	10
Controlling women's voices: Legal repression and the silencing of the #MeToo movement in India	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
The online discourse of Arab-Bedouin girls in Israel	10
Is Instagram emerging as a site for self-objectification of women? A systematic literature review	10
The performance of masculinities in the 2025 presidential elections in Romania	10
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity	10
The empowerment of rural Chinese women through E-commerce entrepreneurship	9
Draupadi as the ‘Other’: A feminist reading through Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex	9
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?	9
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance	9
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals	9
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care	9
Regulating female sexuality through honor killings: A symbolic violence perspective on a girl in the river	9
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy	9
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study	9
Who is afraid of Hong's gender? Locating the unintelligible in post-#MeToo China	9
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women	9
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy	9
In the shadow of gender: A phenomenological study on the experiences of discrimination, violence, and professional challenges of female paramedics in Türkiye	8
Implicit occupational gender stereotypes in India: A skills-based empirical analysis using multiple IATs	8
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan	8
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence: Categorizing and understanding sexual abuse against women ridesharing drivers	8
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China	8
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law	8
Effect of mother's workload on child nutrition: Evidence from rural Bangladesh	8
When women kill: A comparative gender analysis of female-perpetrated homicide in Serbia	8
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain	8
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain	8
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities	8
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times	8
Voices of resistance and solidarity: A feminist critical discourse analysis of #AuratMarch discourse on Twitter	8
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	8
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands	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
Understanding involuntary return of Bangladeshi women migrants from Saudi Arabia: A qualitative study	7
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data	7
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia	7
Exploring the links between patriarchy, informal networks, and corruption tolerance: Evidence from Kazakhstan	7
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye	7
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester	7
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer	7
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy	7
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music	7

From hours to agency: Time use as a proxy for gendered work and well-being of women	7
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender	7
Legalizing anti-gender ideology and civil society resistance in Turkey	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
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey	6
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors	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
The hidden chains: Exploring pathways of women trafficking in Bangladesh	6
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach	6
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey	6
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo	6
What remains: Crisis, neoliberal capture, and care among Moldovan feminists	6
Behind the wheel and under the lens: How gender stereotypes drive perception in Türkiye	6
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men	6
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression	6
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics	6
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain	6
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal	6
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South	6
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia	6
Democratic backsliding and the shifting dynamics of empowerment: The case of the All-Poland Women's Strike	6
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students	6
Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany	6
Care penalty and gender inequality: A qualitative study of poor single mothers in China	6
Editorial Board	6
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions	6
There's always another way: A case of female teachers' career mobility in Xiong'an New Area, China	6
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty	5
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain	5
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction	5
Finding personal growth in single motherhood in Moscow in uncertain times	5
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan	5
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children	5
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?	5
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders	5
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university	5
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study	5
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective	5
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections	5
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws	5
Impacts of mobile phone usage on the income of women food vendors in rural areas of Tanzania	5
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice	5
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies	5
Transgressing “docile bodies”: Women's poetry in Bangla little magazines, 1950s–1970s	5
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan	5
“She passed by”: How young Palestinian men talk about women's looks in public and private	5
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India	5
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–1985	5
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women	5
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?	5
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation	5
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms	5
Editorial Board	4
Gender discourse and femadvertising in India: A multi-modal discourse analysis	4
Will she scale: Determinants that influence women-led enterprise growth in India	4
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain	4
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits	4
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong	4
The cost of children: Material and social deprivation among divorced women’s households in Türkiye	4
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers	4
Silenced voices, enduring struggles: An Islamic feminist analysis of afghan female academics under Taliban rule	4
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities	4
Weaving culture: Indigenous women of Northeast India as agents of tradition and identity	4
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status	4
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district	4
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey	4
Urinary incontinence in elite women's artistic gymnastics: A qualitative case study of athletes' perspectives and management strategies	4
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network	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
Justice or tradition? Cross-national media framing of honor killings in India, Pakistan, and global outlets	4
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia	4
Theological arguments framing violence against women: Context, cause and the gendered impacts of scriptural priorities	4
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle	4
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania	4
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia	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
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection	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
Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence	3
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM	3
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network	3
Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide	3
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression	3
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations	3
Editorial Board	3
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan	3
War, women and forced displacement	3
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis	3
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program	3
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles	3
Exploring the causes of violent behavior in female youth in North Macedonia: A risk factor analysis	3
Introductory essay: Race, gender and queering/querying sport and movement cultures	3
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?	3
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory	3
‘Signing letters and scoring goals’: Women's strategic resistance through petitions and football in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, 1929–1960	3
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement	3
Late diagnosis of autistic women in Spain: A participatory study	3
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”	3
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry	3
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses	3
Does TMT gender balance improve firm resilience? A perspective of team conflict management	3
Digital sisterhood: Live streaming feminism and network resilience in China	3
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills	3
The use of ‘feminism’ in the Turkish National Corpus and its social reflections	3
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‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India	3
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education	3
Information and communication technology (ICT) and media exposures: Implications for women's decision-making authority in the Nigerian household	3
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“When you're the femme, you're the mummy”	3
Introduction: Transgression and its costs	3
Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers	3
Leveraging ICTs: Central Asian women's agency in the context of bride kidnapping	3
#MeToo in an AI-generated deepfake sexual violence era in South Korea	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
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women	3
The annual struggle for equality: Analysis of Aurat March coverage in Pakistan's English print media (2018–2024)	3
“Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India”	3
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico	3
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal	3
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India	3
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society	3
Woman in the mirror: Kurdish women's century long search for recognition in Ata Nahai's novels	3
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan	3
Patriarchy and political regimes: the role of patriarchal narratives in neopatrimonialism, populism, and the rise of the far right	3
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics	3
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people	3
Notions of the ‘ideal’ schoolgirl and hybrid patterns of femininity for 10–11-year-olds in two London schools	3
“Every miscarriage is a work accident”: Theorising miscarriage through a labour lens	3
Anti-gender politics and European democracies' legacies of exclusion and violence	3
“That pressure is already killing you”: Exploring experiences of empowerment and disempowerment of Turkish female athletes	3
Patriarchy and patriarchal customs in the Meitei Society of Manipur	2
Accountability for atrocity crimes in Ukraine: Gendering transitional justice	2
When feminism does not begin at home. Exploring attitudes to feminism in mother-daughter dyads in Poland	2
Exploring the root causes of sexual harassment against women at the workplaces in Pakistan	2
New frontiers of parenthood: Sperm smuggling, IVF, and gender roles in Palestine	2
A multi-actor perspective of humanised midwifery care excellence: An exploratory survey	2
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India	2
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces	2
Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times	2
Retraction notice to “Gendering cybersecurity: Feminist digital activism against gender-based violence in Turkey” [Women. Stud. Int. Forum 114 (2026) 103224]	2
Editorial Board	2
Post-communist perspectives on decolonial feminism	2
Perpetuation of rape myths through news reporting on Intimate partner violence: A Transitivity Analysis of Asma Aziz case	2
When digital feminisms collide with nationalism: Theorizing “pink feminism” on Chinese social media	2
Between a rock and a hard place: The EU's gender regime in times of crisis	2
Religious pressures on women's rights in Southeast Asia: Examining the right to an abortion in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam	2
Invisibilization of the unwanted Others? Feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on the 1951 Refugee Convention’s drafting	2
Intersectionality in gender inequality among women: Adopting policies to minimise unpaid care burden on rural women in north-western Ghana	2
Mobilizing the women, peace and security agenda for refugee women's participation: Committees and cooperatives in Turkey	2
Gender differences in risk aversion: Evidence from private pension system in Türkiye	2
The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision	2
Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions	2
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Are pads the priority? Contested framings of the Brazilian National Policy on menstrual health and dignity	2
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies: The case of Hungary	2
Navigating restrictions: External funding and WPS implementation	2
“Leave me out of it and raise my salary”: Invisible work in the labor market and the gender wage gap	2
Potential alliance or actual estrangement: The struggles of Chinese feminists	2
Social status and women’s work in urban India: A closer look at occupations	2
Inside the dark world: Women's trade and prostitution in Patricia McCormick's Sold and Awais Khan's No Honour	2
Structural vulnerability and neoliberal subjectivities of low-income binational families in Singapore	2
Gendered pathways of power: Women's political representation amid democratic backsliding in India, Hungary and Turkey	2
Young people's experiences of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in England and Canada: Toward a feminist framing of technologically facilitated sexual violence	2
Beyond home and office: Women's quest for identity and self-actualization in urban third places in Jakarta	2
Partial gender quotas: The disparity in women's representation in Taiwan's legislature and cabinet	2
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye	2
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia	2
Eroding freedoms: Perceived democratic backsliding and its impact on women's perceived empowerment in Türkiye	2
Japan's new anti-harassment law and the ironic legitimation of workplace harassment against women managers	2
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave	2