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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
What's it like to be a girl skateboarder? Identity, participation and exclusion for young women in skateboarding spaces and communities39
Double jeopardy: Gendered social policy for two risky life periods in six welfare state contexts31
Women's empowerment and power relations: Evidence from Grameen Bank China30
Book review30
Gender inequality: A worldwide correlate of intimate partner violence29
Contested narratives of belonging: Zimbabwean women migrants in Britain25
Meghan Markle's healthy lifestyle in the media: Multiracial exceptionalism and the cult of slimness22
Editorial Board21
Conformity and transgression as bedfellows: Reproduction, sexuality, and religion in contemporary Iran21
Women, religion and the war19
“My mother is my one and only source of security”: Mother–young daughter relationship in Arab-Palestinian families in Israel18
Why do (middle-aged) women undergo cosmetic/aesthetic surgery? Scoping review18
A typology of right-wing populism in Europe: Intersections of gender, religion and secularity17
From unity in diversity to culture wars? Aceh women's mastery over Adat, Islam, and the state inheritance laws17
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)16
Editorial Board15
Editorial Board15
Violence and abuse against women with disabilities: Relevance for professionals in Spain14
The European standard of gender equality in Turkey: Harmonization, cross-fertilization or reputational reforms?13
Researching in fragile contexts: Exploring and responding to layered responsibility for researcher care13
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences?12
Editorial Board12
Home health care industry in India; an account of genderised labour in commercial health care economy12
Voices of the career delayed: Korean millennial women's underemployed experience11
Editorial Board11
Exploring the determinants of female early age marriages in Pakistan11
Translating international health policies into lived realities: Maternal health, social support programs, and obstetric violence in highland Peru9
Barriers to abortion access in Australia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic9
Sexual activity between victims and perpetrators following a sexual assault: A systematic literature review and critical feminist analysis9
A lack of understanding: Unpacking the transformative power of women's anger in politics9
What institutional characteristics determine and mitigate gender inequality in the workplace? An empirical analysis of Japanese firms9
Embodying global gender norms: A decolonial and diasporic reading of domestic workers' activism in Brazil9
Gendered adaptations to climate change in the Honduran coffee sector8
Gender-based differences in access to and use of loans from rural credit programs for flood adaptation in the farming-dependent char communities of Bangladesh8
Associations between age and social exclusion in the social domain of life by childlessness type among Australian women without children8
The TECC Clinic: An innovative resource for mitigating technology-enabled coercive control8
Abortion and the experience of US citizenship in Jodi Picoult's A Spark of Light7
With the help of the family! Using Sri Lankan informal sector women entrepreneurs' family resources to develop their creative self-efficacy7
Knowledge and attitudes among nurses and midwives in Cyprus and Kenya regarding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): A comparative study7
Media portrayal of sexual violence in Pakistan: A critical discourse analysis of the Lahore-Sialkot motorway incident7
Editorial Board7
Employer funded egg freezing: An advance for women in the workplace or a return to the unencumbered employee?7
Psychological resilience, gaslighting and life satisfaction in a sample of Turkish women6
Women's specifications to design a smartphone app to provide psychological care during reproductive treatments: Qualitative study with patients and professionals6
A debate between hegemonic masculinity and the rise of gender nonconformity: Media representations of the ‘niangpao’ phenomenon in China6
Women's blame, men's merit? The effect of gender on voters' evaluation of ministers' governing performance6
Honour-based violence: Legal and institutional approaches in Spain6
A bound-less love: Long-distance motherhood of Ukrainian women living in Southern Italy6
Inequalities, isolation, and intersectionality: A quantitative study of honour-based violence among girls and boys in metropolitan Sweden6
The new lesbian aesthetic? Exploring gender style among femme, butch and androgynous sexual minority women6
Evaluating the value of the police Independent Advisory Group (IAG): Honour Based Abuse Crime (HBA), Forced Marriage (FM) and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)6
Cutting through complexity: An intersectional analysis of female genital cutting in Indonesia5
Racism and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experiences of Turkish migrant women in the Netherlands5
Philosophy of clothing. Fashion as a social vector: Unraveling the influence of digital times5
“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
Teachers' bodies, (trans)national desires, and the phenomenology of gender5
Reading care work as a borderland in My Cleaner, Muz Sesleri and Lullaby5
‘Powerless, poor and needy?’: Reproducing colonial discourses of gender and Muslim women through educational interventions by I-NGOs in Afghanistan5
Marking and erasing: Classed practices of visibility in mothering Israeli children with invisible disabilities5
Militarization, women's labor force participation, and gender inequality: Evidence from global data5
Termination for fetal anomaly in the UK – Women's views on termination method in the second trimester5
Crossborder Marriages as a Path to “Upward” Social Mobility: The case of Kyrgyz Women in Türkiye5
Family mediation: A critical tool for enhancing women's access to justice in turkish family law5
Biases and exclusions in the occupational health issues of domestic workers in Spain5
Narrative research on the capabilities of widows receiving social cash transfer5
The problem with parity: Women faculty and English doctoral programs in Canada5
Fun young ladies — Modern feminism and China's stand-up comedy4
Turkey's gender gap in higher education: An analysis of IR doctoral students4
Abortion, criminal law, and transgression4
A statutory requirement: Teaching innovation for gender equality at university4
‘If someone, somewhere had a plan’: Disavowal in the gender-equality resistance talk of STEMM leaders4
Between tradition and change: Impact of displacement on gender norm perceptions among Rohingya refugees in Nepal4
Regional gender regimes in the global South: An empirical approach4
Forced divorce: A neglected global practice at the intersections of gender, power, culture, and politics4
Gender roles among Syrian refugees in resettlement contexts: Revisiting empowerment of refugee women and needs of refugee men4
Women, peace and security: Digitalization and cyber feminist solidarity building in the global South4
Transgressive quest/ions? Navigating religion, institutional expectations, and sexuality education in modern Britain4
Unblurring the lines: Exploring the images of women in Ghanaian rap music4
A gendered perspective of challenges women in engineering careers face to reach leadership positions: A innovative theoretical model from Brazilian students' perceptions4
‘An a for a lay’: A governmental approach to the sex for grades discourse in higher education4
Women's pathways to leadership: A bibliometric review and qualitative inquiry into career progression in Turkey4
Editorial Board4
The impact of corruption on women's access to politics: Insights from North Macedonia and Kosovo4
Gender differences in Social Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Spain3
Vignettes of mothering through the pandemic: A gendered perspective of challenges and making meaning of motherhood in India3
Who Cares? Women entrepreneurs and the transition to the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement in Nova Scotia3
Cattle to cash: Changing marriage practices among displaced people in Bentiu, South Sudan3
Editorial Board3
The classification of world countries in terms of Global Gender Gap with using cluster analysis3
Econometric analysis of factors affecting women's multidimensional poverty3
“Academic guilt”: The impact of the pandemic-enforced lockdown on women's academic work3
‘I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy’: Discursive representation of women managers in a collaborative hypertext dictionary in Turkey3
Career aspiration and workplace reality – Lived experience of early career professional women in construction3
Multi-scalar geographies of inequalities: Trajectories of gender regimes in a world regional perspective3
“Women should just be women”: Behind the words, terms, and labels of Australian women without children3
Educational exclusion and socio-cultural constraints for tribal women in the Ganderbal district3
Introduction to the special issue - (Re)writing global gender norms: The role of southern actors3
Feminist counselling practice in Australia: Who, where & how?3
#MeToo, consent and prostitution – The Irish law reform experience3
Editorial Board3
Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India3
Women's gendered experiences of political instability: Kibera during the 2017 Kenyan elections3
Cross-cultural challenges of international Women students in navigating harassment and gendered norms3
Early marriage/pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan in light of reproductive governance and justice3
An acceptance and commitment therapy group intervention for university women survivors of intimate partner violence in Turkey: A pilot feasibility study3
Sexual violence against women: Global interventions and an evidence from Pakistan3
Purdah in the 21st century: Women's experiences of work and space in Dhaka3
Figurative language and gender construction: A corpus-based analysis of similes in Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty3
The YWCA of the USA ‘In Service for the Girls of the World’, 1947–19853
Montenegrin gender ‘protections’ and the limits of gender equality laws3
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma3
The ambivalent trajectory of the German gender regime: Are female breadwinner families an indicator of a shift towards a public gender regime?3
Ukrainian wartime policy and the construction of women's combatant status3
Positionality and the dialectic of race and gender in British higher education: The issue with (mis) representation3
Can you get a job with that? Student endorsement of misconceptions and stereotypes about Women's and Gender Studies3
The moderating role of social anxiety in the effect of self-esteem on attitude of violence against women3
Post-script – When post-racialism fails: Meghan Markle and the limits of symbolism3
The Twitter Battle over the Trans Law in Spain: Mediatization of rage in the case of the podcast Estirando el chicle3
‘Mostly women's issues’ – Gender differences in community responses to a large-scale NGO programme to prevent violence against women in urban India2
Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics2
Understanding the power dynamics affecting black and minority ethnic females in leadership roles2
Pollution, governance, and women's work: Examining African female labour force participation in the face of environmental pollution and governance quality puzzles2
The Tormented Muse: A Feminist Study of the Better Halves of Three Literary Geniuses2
‘Business can't stop.’ Women engaged in prostitution during the COVID-19 pandemic in southern Spain: A qualitative study2
Wedding rituals, political power and the third space in Soviet Azerbaijan2
Editorial Board2
Working from the ground up: Women's safety in a community of sub-divided flats in Hong Kong2
Standing on top of society’s sexist load: Gate-keeping activism and feminist respectability politics in the case of the Iranian MeToo Movement2
The ‘Institutional Lottery’: Institutional variation in the processes involved in accessing late abortion in Victoria, Australia2
“I am my own future” representations and experiences of childfree women2
Outsourcing mothering for schooling: Why Taiwanese middle-class mothers hire tutors2
Gendered state violence and post-coup migration out of Turkey2
Grounding responsibilization: Women in the care professions in contracted social services nonprofits2
War, women and forced displacement2
Between gendered walls: Assessing the impact of single-sex and co-education on student achievement, self-confidence, and communication skills2
‘It's truly exploitative’: Labour control and exploitation in domestic work in Mexico2
Visibility and recognition. The struggle for visibility and recognition of the 8th of March Network2
Playing by the rules? The formal and informal rules of candidate selection2
Resistance, rape, recognition, and aggression2
“Once upon a time, there was a freedom fighter called Amma.” Mothers and grandmothers of Rajputana and the Indian freedom movement2
Asymmetrical portrayal of gender within professional, recreational, and domestic spaces in locally developed Pakistani English Language Textbooks: A multimodal analysis2
‘I am a mother before anything else’: An analysis through the discursive angle of Positioning Theory2
Gender-transformative agricultural experimentation and decision-making: Piloting GALS tools in Tanzania2
Online banking and women's increasing bargaining power in marriage: A case study in a ‘Taobao village’ of southern Fujian2
Do women face a different standard? The interplay of gender and corruption in the 2014 presidential elections in Malawi2
Women in Philosophy, Engineering & Theology: Gendered disciplines and projects of critical re-imagination2
Unveiling her perspective: Exploring women's multi-local living arrangements in German cities2
Two little hearts on my wrist: Dialogues on tattooing, infertility, and potentially good mothers2
The life of the party: Entrepreneurial labor, sexual harassment, and the fashion industry2
Can hypergamy affect married women's entrepreneurship in China?2
Do educated mothers have lower desired son preference? The case of Pakistan2
Contesting religious authority in response to government regulations on the prevention and handling of campus sexual violence (CSV) in Indonesia2
Does gender equality matter? Gender responsive corporate procurement efforts of inter-governmental organizations2
The Niangpao (effeminate men) controversy in China: How to be a real man in the family, school and society2
Effects of brand awareness and feminist message level in femvertising: An experimental study2
‘International, intersectional and interdisciplinary’ – Gender and feminist studies degree descriptions and logics of representation in marketised English higher education2
Neither ‘incel’ nor ‘volcel’: Relational accounts of UK women's sexual abstinence2
Editorial Board2
Navigating the patriarchal bargain: Compliance with and negotiation of menstrual customs in Kathmandu, Nepal2
Something is (still) missing? Feminist services for forced migrants surviving sexual and gender-based violence in Sweden, Australia, Turkey and the United Kingdom2
Listening with quiet curiosity: Feminist and queer reflections on interviews with the “wrong” people2
Men want to take care of princesses! Costs, resistances and challenges of competitive women athletes in couple relationships in Spain2
Editorial Board2
The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM2
Bullying, misogyny and feminist whistleblowing: An autoethnography of how Betsy's Box became a veritable “Pandora's box”2
The role of women in community resilience to climate change: A case study of an Indigenous Fijian community1
‘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
Countering anti-lgbti+ bias in the European Union. A comparative analysis of criminal policies and constitutional issues in Italian, Spanish and French legislation1
(Re-) producing gender-based violence in Canada: The state of things, and the Ontario transitional and housing support program1
Editorial Board1
Travel distances from institutions designated to detain women and girls to procedural (surgical) abortion facilities in Australia: A geospatial analysis1
Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers1
Examining divorce risk through gender roles in Pakistan1
“Spouses have a huge role” in preventing firearm suicide among women veterans: Partners' perspectives, experiences, and needs1
Faith voices resisting anti-abortion norms: Deconstructing and re-configuring transgression in Northern Ireland faith spaces1
Examining barriers and reasons for sport retirement in women's soccer: A qualitative study1
Rethinking women, peace, and security through the localization of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 & National Action Plans: A study of Nepal and Sri Lanka1
Structural vulnerability and neoliberal subjectivities of low-income binational families in Singapore1
Economic violence against Arab-Palestinian women in Israel: Coping mechanisms in social, cultural and structural contexts1
Negotiating between speech and silence as a form of agency: Understanding Dalit women's experiences of sexual violence in India1
Gender differences in risk aversion: Evidence from private pension system in Türkiye1
Book review1
When home becomes classroom: The shifting roles of Korean immigrant mothers in the management of children's education during COVID-19 in the US1
Perpetuation of rape myths through news reporting on Intimate partner violence: A Transitivity Analysis of Asma Aziz case1
The synergy between governance and trade openness in promoting female economic inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa1
Partner's contribution to housework and couple bonding activities among Korean working women: Heterogeneity by socioeconomic status1
Shaping gender disparity in childcare between dual-earner parents in urban China: An exploratory study of influencing factors1
“Leave me out of it and raise my salary”: Invisible work in the labor market and the gender wage gap1
Sexual life of Spanish women during the lockdown by COVID-19: Differences according to sexual orientation?1
Editorial Board1
Mobilizing the women, peace and security agenda for refugee women's participation: Committees and cooperatives in Turkey1
Accountability for atrocity crimes in Ukraine: Gendering transitional justice1
“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
New frontiers of parenthood: Sperm smuggling, IVF, and gender roles in Palestine1
A multi-actor perspective of humanised midwifery care excellence: An exploratory survey1
The annual struggle for equality: Analysis of Aurat March coverage in Pakistan's English print media (2018–2024)1
Introduction: The future of gender regimes1
The psychological dimension of menopause among Somalia women: phenomenological study1
Kinship support and coping with infertility: A qualitative study of women struggling with infertility from Delhi-NCR, India1
The Court of Justice and gender recognition: A possibility for an expansive interpretation?1
“A normal nation in our land”: Reproductive righteousness, redemptive politics and LGBTQIA+ opposition in contemporary Israel1
New directions for researching and writing African feminist histories1
Swapping the veil for casual clothing: A study of Iranian immigrant women living in Norway1
Arab Palestinian women citizens of Israel subjected to intimate partner violence: Their experiences with coping interventions1
Patriarchy and patriarchal customs in the Meitei Society of Manipur1
Immunisations and imagining imperilled fertility: Women's trials of COVID-19 vaccines and reproductive/citizenship transgressions in pandemic times1
“That's a woman's body, that's a woman's choice”: The influence of policy on women's reproductive choices1
Health effects of the #metoo movement by gender: Public health implications of a social movement1
Demystifying ‘diet culture’: Exploring the meaning of diet culture in online ‘anti-diet’ feminist, fat activist, and health professional communities1
Social-democratic imaginaries of transformations in conservative gender regimes1
Intersectionality in gender inequality among women: Adopting policies to minimise unpaid care burden on rural women in north-western Ghana1
“It takes work ethic to get two-piece ready”: Neoliberalism, postfeminist healthism, and aesthetic labor in U.S. pageantry1
Religious pressures on women's rights in Southeast Asia: Examining the right to an abortion in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam1
The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (WASH-GEM): Conceptual foundations and domains of change1
How mumpreneurs achieve high entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and development: Evidence from China1
The rise of carceral feminism in Sweden: Analysing political debate and policy on men's violence against women1
To voice or not to voice? Israeli women activists' paths to voice1
Women's political power: Global progress, persistent challenges1
Navigating restrictions: External funding and WPS implementation1
Legacies and recipe of constructing successful righteous motherhood policies: The case of Hungary1
Exposing pornography's true nature: A conceptual framework1
Feminist counter-authoritarian political agency: Muslim girls re-generating politics in India1
The mindset, lifelong learning, and gerotranscendence of elderly women in Taiwan: An exploratory study1
Gender presence on the editorial boards of journals in the Women's Studies subject category1
Intersectional violence against women in Gaza amidst genocide1
Inside the dark world: Women's trade and prostitution in Patricia McCormick's Sold and Awais Khan's No Honour1
Inside the Battle of Algiers: Zohra Drif looks back on her war experience1
Introduction: Transgression and its costs1
Are women present in history classes? Conceptions of primary and secondary feminist teachers about how to teach women's history1
Book review1
The call-up from women to healthcare professionals: The experiences and expectations during self-injection in fertility treatment1
Representing victims and victimizers: An analysis of #MeToo movement related reports1
Editorial Board1
Institutional challenges to delivering domestic violence services in Ghana: A case of structural violence?1
Mainstreaming gender in Korean development assistance: A review of Vietnam's “selective ownership” and the local gender network1
Japan's new anti-harassment law and the ironic legitimation of workplace harassment against women managers1
Feminist waves, global activism, and gender violence regimes: Genealogy and impact of a global wave1
A digital narrative study concerning global crisis period: The pandemic's impact on the domestic responsibilities of women health workers in Türkiye1
Young people's experiences of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in England and Canada: Toward a feminist framing of technologically facilitated sexual violence1
Marriage murders and anti-caste feminist politics in India1
When digital feminisms collide with nationalism: Theorizing “pink feminism” on Chinese social media1
The hybrid political role of feminism on Twitter during COVID-19: SISMA Mujer in Colombia1
Between a rock and a hard place: The EU's gender regime in times of crisis1
The meaning of abuse for young Arab women in Israel: Gender, social, and cultural mechanisms of control and supervision1
The effect of tourism on gender equality in the labour market: Help or hindrance?1
Invisibilization of the unwanted Others? Feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives on the 1951 Refugee Convention’s drafting1
Editorial Board1
Editorial Board1
When feminism does not begin at home. Exploring attitudes to feminism in mother-daughter dyads in Poland1
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