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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics30
Politicization of international aid: Religious responses to criminalizing female genital mutilation in Sudan27
Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway22
Delegitimizing a woman politician through sexist humor in online public discourse: A discursive analysis using positioning theory21
Entrepreneurial team heterogeneity and female entrepreneurial performance: A multiple mediation model19
Traffic compliance effect of more women behind the wheel: Pride or prejudice?18
Editorial Board16
From vulnerability to agency: The management and medicalization of mental health in women and men16
Theorizing the penal state: The darkside of gender regimes in the case of Spain15
Gender and power relations in cultural transition: Three generations of immigrant women from Ex-Soviet Caucasus in Israel15
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran14
The psychological dimension of menopause among Somalia women: phenomenological study14
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan14
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review13
Untangling the double bind of carework in green motherhood: An ecofeminist developmental path forward13
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain12
Polarization, religiosity, and support for gender equality: A comparative study across four Muslim-majority countries11
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?11
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category10
The virtuous circle of participation: Female candidates and women's engagement in Korean politics10
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Zohra Drif looks back on her war experience9
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement9
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders9
Editorial Board9
Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle in the media: Multiracial exceptionalism and the cult of slimness8
Book review8
Countering anti-lgbti+ bias in the European Union. A comparative analysis of criminal policies and constitutional issues in Italian, Spanish and French legislation8
Contested narratives of belonging: Zimbabwean women migrants in Britain8
Editorial Board8
Rethinking reflexivity and positionality in researching happiness: Negotiating fieldwork dilemmas in Pakistan7
Assessing emerging trends of expansion and women enrolments in the higher education system in Mozambique7
‘Care’ as camouflaging capitalism and obscuring harm: The user-generated pornography market and women's inequality7
Depicting atrocity: The experiences of women under the Khmer Rouge7
Perceptions of gender roles and freedom among Iranian international students in Hungary6
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South6
Gender-transformative approaches in international development: A brief history and five uniting principles6
Women, religion and the war6
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations6
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts6
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university6
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China6
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey5
Women with disabilities, and communities of care in wartime Ukraine: Conversations with disability and women's rights activists about feminist and disability solidarities5
“No woman's land?” The gendered patterning of urban street names in Romania5
Are women present in history classes? Conceptions of primary and secondary feminist teachers about how to teach women's history5
Indigenous women's employment in natural resource industries in Canada: Patterns, barriers and opportunities5
Examining divorce risk through gender roles in Pakistan5
Girls just wanna have fun! South Asian women in the UK diaspora: Gradations of choice, agency, consent and coercion5
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain5
A Southern European model? Gender regime change in Italy and Spain4
Fintechs and the financial inclusion gender gap in Sub-Saharan African countries4
The gendered effects of parenthood on career outcomes: Do family gaps explain gender differences along the science pipeline?4
The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community4
#Amamantar: Representations of breastfeeding targeting Hispanic/Latinx populations on social media4
Women academics' ambivalent experiences of singlehood and international mobility4
“Syrian second wives”: Polygyny, gender relations, and the experiences of Syrian and Turkish women4
Feminized forced migration: Ukrainian war refugees4
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty4
The effect of membership in producer organizations on women's empowerment: Evidence from Kenya4
“I feel free and comfortable”: The Escape the Corset Movement in South Korea and the question of women's agency3
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence3
Editorial Board3
Editorial Board3
Barriers to abortion access in Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru3
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices3
To be (different) or not to be: The role of gender in constructing diplomatic speeches3
Research trends on the intricate dimensions of divorce among women: A bibliometric analysis3
Editorial Board3
Examining barriers and reasons for sport retirement in women's soccer: A qualitative study3
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico3
Pricing policies and culture at two Singapore hostess bars: Is a grounded cosmopolitan ethics possible in such a setting?3
Editorial Board3
Home health care industry in India; an account of genderised labour in commercial health care economy3
Gender relations and the establishment of the LGBT movement in Timor-Leste3
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports3
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan3
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors3
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia3
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India3
Editorial Board3
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis3
Swings and merry go rounds: Transgression and opportunities for fatherhood in pandemic Britain3
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities3
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?3
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?3
Editorial Board3
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India3
“A normal nation in our land”: Reproductive righteousness, redemptive politics and LGBTQIA+ opposition in contemporary Israel3
Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia: A geospatial analysis3
The relationship between cyberchondria levels, attitudes towards menopause and menopausal complaints of women in the climacteric period: Analysis with data mining2
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience2
Gender in revelations: Unraveling gendered struggles and revisiting the construction of cultural identity paradigms in Badriyah Al-Bishr's Hend Wa alʿaskar (2006)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 Lanka2
Theorizing illiberal state feminism: Institutional dilemmas and political parallelism in China's gender governance2
Intersectionality and the universal periodic review: A case study of Sudan's women's rights recommendations2
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children2
The interaction of gender regimes and long-term care provision across Europe: Ambivalent intersections of gender, class and ethnicity2
Doing gender, performing marriage: A study of China's xinghun marriage ads2
Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers2
The impacts of violence against women on choice and agency: Evidence from Ghana and Pakistan2
Transnational comparison of ‘comfort women’ advocacy movements in Japan and South Korea2
Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions2
Editorial Board2
Intersectional politics and citizen activism: An Israeli Mizrahi feminist lens2
Surveillant assemblage: Overt, covert, movement and social surveillance in domestic and family violence in Singapore2
Maternity protection and work-family balance support policies: A Korean case study2
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh2
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network2
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident2
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms2
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women2
The European standard of gender equality in Turkey: Harmonization, cross-fertilization or reputational reforms?2
Resisting the managed and fragmented selves in academia: Collaborative autoethnographies about modulations of control and surveillance in the neoliberal classroom2
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care2
Sexism and women's access to justice: Feminist judging in Indonesian Islamic judiciary2
Corrigendum to “Gender, responsible citizenship and global climate change” [Women's Studies International Forum, 50 (2015) 30-36]2
Negotiating between speech and silence as a form of agency: Understanding Dalit women's experiences of sexual violence in India2
The shame of casual sex: Narratives of young Swedish women2
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice2
When social responses for violence against women are insufficient to prevent homelessness - A perspective from Quebec (Canada)2
Immobilizing intersectionality: The performative inclusion of feminist expertise within PSI sexual violence policies2
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity2
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil2
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction2
Editorial Board2
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation2
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain2
Economic sectors and globalization channels to gender economic inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa2
Post-script – When post-racialism fails: Meghan Markle and the limits of symbolism2
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)2
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws2
Book review2
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces2
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective2
‘It's always that idea that everyone's trying to look like something’: Revisioning sociocultural factors in eating disorders through Photovoice2
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control2
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies2
United States sex education pre- and post- the Dobbs decision: Feminist critiques and student concerns2
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance1
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis1
Mothers, daughters, boundaries, and divides: Tracing the concept of difference and generation in women's activism1
Decolonizing meanings climate crisis and land-based adaptions: From Indigenous women's perspectives in Western Canada1
Dwelling in an all-male world: A critical analysis of the Taliban discourse on Afghan women1
Locally specific matrices of domination: Towards a global theory of Intersectionalities1
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light1
Institutional challenges to delivering domestic violence services in Ghana: A case of structural violence?1
Beyond intensive motherhood: Performing online cross-border motherhood on social media1
Women's perceptions on peace and justice: The case of the Kurdish issue in Turkey1
The hegemony tax: Performing masculinities and femininities by Egypt's Mubarak and Mrs. Mubarak1
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes1
Relationships of modern sexism and misogyny to feminist attitudes and engagement in China1
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye1
The social representation of the Bedouin woman1
“Spouses have a huge role” in preventing firearm suicide among women veterans: Partners' perspectives, experiences, and needs1
“We have achieved great feats…but our struggle is far from over”: Centering caste difference in feminist discourse of the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Bihar, India1
Immoral schoolgirls, sensual corruption and contestations over gendering the postcolonial Tanzanian state1
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–19851
Return to work after prolonged maternity leave. An interpretative description1
The role of educational attainment and educational pairings in women's marriage behavior in Turkey1
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women1
Gender, equality and the sex trade1
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy1
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work1
Editorial Board1
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle1
A phenomenological exploration of Indian women's body image within intersecting identities in a globalizing nation1
Editorial Board1
Women's agency and resistance in Russia's war on Ukraine: From victim of the war to prominent force1
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden1
Gender-based differences in the meanings and uses of housing for health and everyday life: An intersectional approach1
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka1
Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India1
“Today I am a Russian-Moroccan”: Cultural transition among Gen 1.5 immigrant women in Israel's geo-social periphery1
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study1
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan1
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?1
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics1
“Making visible the invisible”: Exploring the role of gender biases on the glass ceiling in Qatar's public sector1
The prism of equality. From legal feminist critiques to the Digital Era1
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district1
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status1
Activism and gender equality policy in the Swedish film sector from the second wave to #metoo1
Editorial Board1
Rooting, shifting and mobilizing: Women's peacebuilding across differences in Georgia and Myanmar1
Focus on the fetus: The evangelical ethic, anti-environmentalism, and the spirit of neoliberalism1
Gender-responsive language in the National Policy Guidelines for Immunization in Kenya and changes in prevalence of tetanus vaccination among women, 2008–09 to 2014: A mixed methods study1
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India1
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice1
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan1
Self help groups and politics: A complex relationship1
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections1
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?1
Gender regimes, polities, and the world-system: Comparing Iran and Tunisia1
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy1
Agency in multiple temporalities: Being Syrian women, becoming widows and refugees, remaining pious1
New directions for researching and writing African feminist histories1
Reconceptualizing resilience and vulnerability in liberal feminist discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic1
When the law meets feminisms: The shortcomings of contemporary prostitution policies across the European Union1
Gender segregation in parliamentary committees of Turkey: Intermediary spaces of women's political representation1
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector1
Effectiveness of interactive television instruction in improving the business competence and income level of women smallholder okra farmers1
The relationship between electricity consumption and improvement in women's welfare in Africa1
Exploring self-exclusion as a gendered barrier in Spanish universities. A mixed methodological study1
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women1
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India1
Sexual double standard in friends with benefits relationships: A literature review1
Women, feminism, and art schools: The UK experience1
“The balance of power is me: 0, Harvey Weinstein: 10”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the press representation of Hollywood’s biggest sexual harassment scandal1
#MeToo, consent and prostitution – The Irish law reform experience1
Labour of love: Garment sewing, gender, and domesticity1
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