Womens History Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Womens History Review is 0. 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.)
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Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–199713
Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective6
The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula4
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany4
Introduction: transnational women’s activism4
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20054
Gender in urban development of post-war Europe. Women’s social position in the planning strategies of Basildon (UK) and Pernik (Bulgaria) in the long 1950s4
Distant sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–19143
Sardinia: women, history, books and places3
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace3
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada3
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’3
‘They were their boyfriends’: the construction of the image of the perpetrator in cases of sexual assault in the community of Manta during the Peruvian internal armed conflict2
Survival is a Promise: the eternal life of Audre Lorde2
Experiments in early US television: windows of opportunities for female technical workers in the 1940s2
Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo2
Feminist avenues for listening in: amplifying silenced histories of media and communication2
Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene2
The Politics of Women’s Suffrage: Local, National and International Dimensions2
The translation of women within the context of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement (1868–1935)2
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo2
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history2
Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies2
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives1
Transformative waters in late-medieval literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe1
Surviving home: womanhood, contentious intimacy & the trauma of home in Tobago, 1900–19601
Teenage Intimacies: young women, sex and social life in England, 1950–801
Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain1
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women1
The business of birth: malpractice and maternity care in the United States1
Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: history without memory1
Piano music, fantasy, and Elizaveta Ivanova’s ambivalent feminism1
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20121
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida and women’s presence in international cooperation during the interwar period1
Images of Chinese women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exotic knowledge books1
‘Appropriated to her own use and benefit’: women, larceny, and race in post-Civil War South Carolina1
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present1
Archiving the initiative of the Chinese rural left-behind women of migrant men in modern epistolary narratives (1910s–1920s)1
Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing1
‘Careers for women’: BBC women’s radio programmes and the ‘professional’, 1923–19551
Daring to hope, my life in the 1970s1
The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory1
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence1
Lesbian Nation and Black nationalism1
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–19211
Labour, media and technology: editors’ introduction1
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity1
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances1
Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé , by Elizabeth Cobbs, Cambridge, Harvard 1
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?1
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian women in the Gulag1
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world1
Translocal homemaking and home unmaking in the letter memoir of Alice Lucy Hodson1
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz1
Youth, suffering and ‘comfort women’ in Timor-Leste: towards a people's perspective of history1
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism1
‘To remember everything, to remember always’: the writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny0
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain0
Koizumi Ikuko: The making of a Christian feminist in imperial Japan, 1892–19220
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights0
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
‘Alice Diamond, giant—queen of the terrors’: female gangsterism, violence and criminal mythmaking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century London ‘underworld’0
Campus protest0
Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 18540
Indian sex life: sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought0
‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
The archival practice of ‘comfort women’ documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue0
Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects0
Congratulations to Rachel Reeves who, in 2024, becomes the first woman to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK0
‘It was the Presentation nuns who made a rebel of me’: women religious and Ireland’s Revolutionary Era0
Queenship and narratives of power in Welsh medieval sources0
The future of gendered pasts: thoughts about emerging research into women’s history in Australia as feminists globally confront attacks on and the regression of women’s rights0
Testimonies of affect: Native American women’s histories of violence on California’s Pacific North Coast0
Women, media, and power in Indonesia0
Carmen Callil (1938–2022): an appreciation0
Reconstructing subjectivity from silence: Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Ryan and the Victorian archive0
Time, labour, and the ‘dual role’: Viola Klein’s study of ‘Professional Womanpower’ as a feminist archive0
Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political , by Jo Littler, 2023, London, Lawrence Wishart, 0
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
Digital feminist labour: the immaterial, aspirational and affective labour of feminist activists and fempreneurs0
Dale Spender (1943–2023): some personal reflections0
Black left feminism in pre-revolutionary Cuba: the life and work of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa (1901–1958)0
Mirabai in public spheres0
Mobilising affect and trauma: the politics of gendered memory and gendered silence0
Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)0
Minerva’s French sisters: women of science in enlightenment France0
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–19450
‘A meeting of different tribes’? Travelling women and mobility between European and Australasian women’s lands0
‘Real rape’ and the coverage of sexual violence in Dutch newspapers, 1880 to 19300
French feminisms, global imperialisms—some historiographical reflections on writing Feminism’s Empire0
Dutch women and the Lesbian International0
Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality0
Commemorative modernisms: women writers, death and the First World War0
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–17450
As Good as a Marriage: the Anne Lister diaries 1836–380
‘God is an equal opportunities employer- pity about the Church’: humour and the campaign for women’s ordination in the Church of England, 1978–19940
Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice , edited by Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James 0
Women and gardens: obstacles and opportunities for women gardeners throughout history0
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–19140
Oral history as an analytical tool: Eve Mahlab and the Australian Trailblazing Women Law Project0
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers0
Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–640
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses0
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
Working in Cork: Everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917–20010
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
‘Notes on a Community Struggle’ Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the ‘mass struggle of housewives’0
The governess in nineteenth-century Ulster middle-class households0
In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States0
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain0
Non-elite women’s networks across the early modern world0
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women0
Great expectations and hard times:- the advent of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and women’s entry to the legal profession0
Staging emancipation and its limits: East German cultural diplomacy, the German Democratic Women’s League, and the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin0
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
The financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774–18600
Women’s activism and state policies during International Women’s Year and the United Nations decade for women: a comparative perspective0
The representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation0
Women in STEM in Higher Educations: Good practices of attraction, access, and retainment in higher education Women in STEM in Higher Educations: Good practices of attraction, access, an0
Irish women’s wartime networks: care work and female agency on the first world war home front0
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life0
Women’s suffrage in word, image, music, stage and screen. the making of a movement0
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–220
Deeds and words: suffrage and the London library0
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
Early women barristers and the negotiation of professional and political identity0
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20130
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
Movie workers: the women who made British cinema0
A ‘master-mistress’: revisiting the history of eighteenth-century wives0
Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian feminist and female intellectual. Who was she and why has she been forgotten?0
Women and Gender in the Qur’an0
The streets as a cloister. History of the daughters of charity. 17th-18th centuries0
Screening women’s history in the film Suffragette (2015): between intersectional feminist activism and historical memory0
Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century0
Intimate communities: wartime healthcare and the birth of modern China, 1937–19450
Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard: on the trail of ‘Kitty’ Marshall and the met police ‘Cats’ Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard: on the trail of ‘Kitty’ Marshall and the met police ‘Cats’ 0
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe0
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue0
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0
The labour of light: gender, technology and the domestic in the photography of Nagashima Yurie and Kawauchi Rinko0
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
The movie-struck girl in British Malaya, 1919–19370
Knowledge production and activism on the ‘comfort women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia0
The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts0
Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s0
Women and reproductive technologies: the socio-economic development of technologies changing the world0
Playing the game of lesbian imagination: radical lesbian feminist organising in the Dutch Lesbian Nation0
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–19750
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
‘A very sensitive Rwandan woman’: sexual violence, history, and gendered narratives in the trial of Pauline Nyiramasuhuko at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda, 2001-20110
Taking travel home: the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-18300
‘World enemy bolshevism’: gender, journalism & the continuities of ideological conflict in Germany, 1933–19550
‘Were they to have petticoat government in the hospital?’ The reform of nursing in nineteenth-century Lincoln0
‘Work in the Housewives’ Service, like that of a household, seems never to be done’: the ‘practical politics’ of the Women’s Voluntary Service in the Second World War0
Married Women in legal Practice; agency and Norms in the Swedish realm, 1350–14500
Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–17980
Oral histories of Tibetan women: whispers from the roof of the world (Routledge research in gender and history)0
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.0
Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–19850
The queens’ dressmakers: women’s work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London0
Introducing Lesbian Nation0
The Patriarchs: the origins of inequality The Patriarchs: the origins of inequality , by Angela Saini, Boston, Beacon Press, 2023, vii + 246pp, $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN 0
The cultural legacy of ‘We’ll Meet Again’: an exploration of the song’s historical and ongoing ties to gender and the nation at war0
‘I Do Not Believe In Silence’ by Clare Shaw, from Head On (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)0
Lesbian mothers in twenty-first century Australia: creating a political subject position0
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families0
The hidden half: the double lives of Chinese migrant women in post-war Britain0
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction0
From stay-at-home women to career-minded women: the Istanbul YWCA, 1919–19300
Women against cruelty: protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain0
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland0
‘They Call Me Babu’: the politics of visibility and gendered memories of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia0
The women of Rendezvous: A transatlantic story of family and slavery0
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime0
Henrietta Howard: mistress, survivor, imperialist?0
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars0
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)0
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting0
Rehabilitating homes and humans: probation, gender and domesticity in Britain, 1907–19600
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation0
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press0
Standing with the women, men and children in Ukraine0
The ‘awkward’ squad: British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years0
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
Ingenious trade: women and work in seventeenth-century London0
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
War, gender, and lasting emotion: letters and photographs of Masha Bruskina and Olga Bancic, 1941–440
The Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19910
History on trial: the abortion wars0
Remembering Sappho: transatlantic ‘Lesbian Nations’ in the long nineteenth century0
Professional women: the public, the private, and the political0
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–19490
In continuous expectation: Isabella d'Este's reign of letters0
Gendered Transactions: the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820–19300
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): from its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach0
Illegal treatment for immoral sex: abortion among single women in 1940s Shanghai0
The motif of tears: representations of activism and suffering in the Liji Alley Museum in Nanjing0
The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–19140
The women’s peace camp at Comiso, 1983: transnational feminism and the anti-nuclear movement0
‘The thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement0
‘There is still some work to be done, but we’ve come a long way’: the changing position of women in technical television jobs0
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–19590
Girmit, intimacy and sexual violence: indentured women on colonial sugar plantations, c. 1834–19170
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: a gendered opportunity0
Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, & Suffrage, 1890-19650
From women operators to technical assistants: women in the BBC’s wartime engineering division0
Forgotten wives: how women get written out of history0
Fixing women: the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in Britain and America0
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
Viewpoint: engaging the public with the Pankhurst home0
Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s0
‘It biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder’: female rivalry in Caroline Lee Hentz’s novellas0
Edith Summerskill: letters from deserted wives0
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction0
‘The negro type of beauty’: Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein’s Art, 1915–19590
Gender, race, and the status of household labour in Lucy Maynard Salmon’s Domestic Service (1897)0
‘And now you love me, and there is no way out of it’: marital engagement, misogyny and violence in the Victorian fin-de-siècle gothic short story0
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher0
Who’s Black and Why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society0
‘When that hour strikes danger, we sally forth’: women doctors at war, 1939–19450
Care for the care takers: the refugee crisis as opportunity for change0
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe0
Women, religion and associativism: the aristocratic origins of the National Council of Italian Women, 1903–19080
Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction0
Two lost women and an unlikely French connection0
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves0
The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation0
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings0
Sacred bundles unborn0
Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–19400
The ‘old girls’ network’: media newsletters as feminist technologies in 1970s America0
Public toilets for women: how female municipal councillors expanded the right to the city in Sweden, c. 1910–19250
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