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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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‘On the fringe of the Technical World’: female electrical appliance demonstrators in interwar Scotland6
Feminist transformations and domestic violence activism in divided Berlin, 1968–20025
The ‘awkward’ squad: British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years4
The Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19914
Piano music, fantasy, and Elizaveta Ivanova’s ambivalent feminism3
Public toilets for women: how female municipal councillors expanded the right to the city in Sweden, c. 1910–19253
Indecent exposure: a serious ‘nuisance’ offence3
Koizumi Ikuko: The making of a Christian feminist in imperial Japan, 1892–19222
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz2
A grandmother's legacy. The gift that keeps on giving?2
Lesbian Nation and Black nationalism2
The governess in nineteenth-century Ulster middle-class households2
Reconstructing subjectivity from silence: Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Ryan and the Victorian archive2
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 2
From stay-at-home women to career-minded women: the Istanbul YWCA, 1919–19301
White blouses in the blackshirt nation: women and uniforms in Fascist italy1
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves1
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.1
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20051
The ‘old girls’ network’: media newsletters as feminist technologies in 1970s America1
The mystery of nurse Catherine Pine's suffragette medal—and its solution1
‘The stinking whirlpool of abuse and ignorance’: the marginalisation of sex workers in Ireland, c.1975–19851
Rehabilitating homes and humans: probation, gender and domesticity in Britain, 1907–19601
Introducing Lesbian Nation1
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland1
Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–19971
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life1
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families1
Revisiting feminist historiography on women's activism in Turkey: beyond the grand narrative of waves1
Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective1
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers1
The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula1
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction1
In continuous expectation: Isabella d'Este's reign of letters1
‘It was the Presentation nuns who made a rebel of me’: women religious and Ireland’s Revolutionary Era1
Screening women’s history in the film Suffragette (2015): between intersectional feminist activism and historical memory1
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence1
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20131
With her fist raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of Black community activism1
‘My how I have walked and worked to get those names’: Petitioning and the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States, 1908–1920.1
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 1950s1
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany1
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
Beyond the homefront: Chinese women’s agency, familial love, and sisterhood during the Second Sino-Japanese War0
Translocal homemaking and home unmaking in the letter memoir of Alice Lucy Hodson0
Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction0
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: a campaign for justice0
National Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women: a renaissance of becoming visible0
Two lost women and an unlikely French connection0
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue0
‘Dis Köstliche Büchli’: the books of the Dünz, Wyss, and d’Hervart families at Nostell Priory0
Life lines: agency and autobiography in Sarah Curran’s Poetry0
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives0
‘Ever growing fascism’: the Jean Field custody case and weaponizing family law in the United States during the Cold War0
Roe: the history of a national obsession0
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida and women’s presence in international cooperation during the interwar period0
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo0
Women's labor in Russian America0
Gendered Transactions: the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820–19300
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: a gendered opportunity0
Dale Spender (1943–2023): some personal reflections0
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
Henrietta Howard: mistress, survivor, imperialist?0
‘Were they to have petticoat government in the hospital?’ The reform of nursing in nineteenth-century Lincoln0
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
The queens’ dressmakers: women’s work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London0
‘I’ve forgotten my patient’s name’: thoughts of an Intensive Care doctor working with Covid-19 patients during the 2020 to early 2021 pandemic in the UK0
‘On the respectability of this person every thing depends’: hospital matrons and power relations in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c. 1817–18200
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
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain0
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
Great expectations and hard times:- the advent of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and women’s entry to the legal profession0
Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice , edited by Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James 0
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada0
Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–19850
Homes, food and domesticity: rethinking the housewife in twentieth century Britain0
Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–17980
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity0
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
Gender, race, and the status of household labour in Lucy Maynard Salmon’s Domestic Service (1897)0
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–19140
In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States0
Rallying women: activism, archives and affect0
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, & Suffrage, 1890-19650
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–17450
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press0
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
Dutch women and the Lesbian International0
‘Alternative facts’ and the airbrushing of women from early mission history: the case of Susanna Klein0
Distant sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–19140
Time, labour, and the ‘dual role’: Viola Klein’s study of ‘Professional Womanpower’ as a feminist archive0
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain0
The Statue of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) in Dukes Plaza, Woking0
Anne Knight (1786–1862) and the fight for women’s suffrage in the 1840s: political activism and multiple tactics0
Women, media, and power in Indonesia0
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain0
‘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 financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774–18600
The international council of women in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century: reception, influence and exchanges0
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars0
‘It biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder’: female rivalry in Caroline Lee Hentz’s novellas0
Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–19490
Irish women’s wartime networks: care work and female agency on the first world war home front0
Scholar-diplomats, protodiplomacy and the communication of history: Alice Stopford Green and Jean Jules Jusserand0
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
Black woman, singer and activist at ninety: Elza Soares and the history of women in post-abolition Brazil0
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–19750
Forgotten wives: how women get written out of history0
‘The most extensive reform ever made in the private law of Ghana’: a political history of the 1985 Intestate Succession Law0
Worlds of knowledge in women’s travel writing0
Feminist avenues for listening in: amplifying silenced histories of media and communication0
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
Deeds and words: suffrage and the London library0
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings0
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe0
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
Playing the game of lesbian imagination: radical lesbian feminist organising in the Dutch Lesbian Nation0
Reading between the lines: marginalised sisters at Nostell Priory, 1765-18000
Early women barristers and the negotiation of professional and political identity0
Transformative waters in late-medieval literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe0
Mobilising affect and trauma: the politics of gendered memory and gendered silence0
Campus protest0
Distant sisters. Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-19140
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
Survival is a Promise: the eternal life of Audre Lorde0
Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life0
Indian sex life: sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought0
The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–19140
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime0
Women’s suffrage in word, image, music, stage and screen. the making of a movement0
Shame and the Anti-Feminist backlash; Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890–1920; Remembering women’s activism0
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s0
Remembering Jalna Hanmer (1931–2023)0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
Care for the care takers: the refugee crisis as opportunity for change0
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
Giving birth in eighteenth-century England0
Working in Cork: Everyday life in Irish Steel, Sunbeam Wolsey and the Ford Marina Plant, 1917–20010
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’0
Edith Summerskill: letters from deserted wives0
Postmistresses and the state, 1660–17150
Police Court Rota: women’s archiving and access to legal life in early twentieth-century England0
‘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
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world0
‘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
‘French lady seeks … ’: finding work as a French governess in late Victorian and Edwardian England (1870–1914)0
‘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 conflict0
Female political facilitators: a case study of post-Napoleonic Rome0
Between sacrifice and duty. The changing image of the Polish Mother-Patriot and evolution of women’s national agenda in the Province of Posen at the turn of the twentieth century0
Introduction: transnational women’s activism0
‘Problems of the women’s movement’: Lind-af-Hageby’s assessment of the state of the British women’s movement in 1914 and the scale of the issues facing feminists0
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
Irene Barclay (1894-1989): the extraordinary career of the first woman chartered surveyor, and the development of the housing management profession0
Seven servants and their mistress: towards a social ecology of domestic service in Street, Somerset (1900–1905)0
Giving women history: a history of Ekaterina Dashkova through her gifts to Catherine the Great and others0
French feminisms, global imperialisms—some historiographical reflections on writing Feminism’s Empire0
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)0
The ‘silver thread’: Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890–1982), the Six Point Group, and new understandings of intergenerational female activism in England, 1960s to 19800
Women and Gender in the Qur’an0
An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights0
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism0
‘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
Republican women and Catholic Church responses to the strip searching of female prisoners in Northern Ireland, 1982–920
The women who made modern economics0
Who’s Black and Why? A hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race0
The women’s peace camp at Comiso, 1983: transnational feminism and the anti-nuclear movement0
Women, religion and associativism: the aristocratic origins of the National Council of Italian Women, 1903–19080
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–19210
Where was women’s work? Gender, work and urban space in Amsterdam, 1650–17910
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
Ingenious trade: women and work in seventeenth-century London0
‘World enemy bolshevism’: gender, journalism & the continuities of ideological conflict in Germany, 1933–19550
Sources for Irish women’s history0
Rigged against them: women camera operators at the BBC during the 1970s and 1980s0
Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial0
British-Pakistani homeworkers and activist campaigns, 1962–20020
‘Appropriated to her own use and benefit’: women, larceny, and race in post-Civil War South Carolina0
Addressing the nation0
Protecting ‘injured female innocence’ or furthering ‘the rights of women?’ The sexual Slander of Women in New York and Victoria (1808–1887)0
Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society0
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances0
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
Labour, media and technology: editors’ introduction0
Taking travel home: the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-18300
Bringing life to Aberdeen: a history of maternity and neonatal services0
‘I Do Not Believe In Silence’ by Clare Shaw, from Head On (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)0
Hilja Pärssinen and the religious grounds for socialist welfare in early twentieth-century Finland0
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world0
Essays on Women in Western Esotericism: Beyond Seeresses and Sea Priestesses0
The labour of light: gender, technology and the domestic in the photography of Nagashima Yurie and Kawauchi Rinko0
Married Women in legal Practice; agency and Norms in the Swedish realm, 1350–14500
A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation0
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction0
In the heart of the Lesbian Nation: Iowa City, Iowa, and the building of a lesbian community0
Testimonies of affect: Native American women’s histories of violence on California’s Pacific North Coast0
Clemence Dane. Forgotten feminist writer of the inter-war years0
1975-1985: a catalyst for Global South-oriented advocacy by Dutch feminists0
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20120
Elite hostesses as disruptive forces: the country house in interwar Britain0
Professional women: the public, the private, and the political0
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
‘When that hour strikes danger, we sally forth’: women doctors at war, 1939–19450
Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media —Contingent curation, archival activism, frictional relations0
‘They Call Me Babu’: the politics of visibility and gendered memories of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia0
Contraception and modern Ireland: a social history, c. 1922-92 Contraception and modern Ireland: a social history, c. 1922-92 , by Laura Kelly, Cambridge, Cambridge Univ0
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
Women and reproductive technologies: the socio-economic development of technologies changing the world0
Women’s activism online and the global struggle for social change0
The business of birth: malpractice and maternity care in the United States0
Radical sex role ideology and the Finnish gender role movement in the late 1960s0
Women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain: making a difference across the political spectrum Women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain: making a difference across the political 0
Surviving home: womanhood, contentious intimacy & the trauma of home in Tobago, 1900–19600
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–19590
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
Women against cruelty: protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain0
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present0
Sardinia: women, history, books and places0
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women0
Protecting the health and welfare of Japanese women: Yoshioka Yayoi and her visit to Nazi Germany in 19390
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian feminist and female intellectual. Who was she and why has she been forgotten?0
From women operators to technical assistants: women in the BBC’s wartime engineering division0
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
‘Real rape’ and the coverage of sexual violence in Dutch newspapers, 1880 to 19300
1933: the year of lesbian modernism in Poland?0
‘The thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement0
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
Black female intellectuals in nineteenth century America, born to bloom unseen?0
Images of Chinese women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exotic knowledge books0
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria February 20230
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
‘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
Black left feminism in pre-revolutionary Cuba: the life and work of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa (1901–1958)0
The motif of tears: representations of activism and suffering in the Liji Alley Museum in Nanjing0
War, gender, and lasting emotion: letters and photographs of Masha Bruskina and Olga Bancic, 1941–440
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations0
‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school0
Labour women in power: cabinet ministers in the twentieth century0
A tale of two feminisms: gender critical feminism, trans inclusive feminism and the case of Kathleen Stock0
‘A perfect farce’: the practice of claiming damages for adultery in the late-Victorian divorce court0
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality0
Saving ‘Ireland's children’: voluntary action, gender, humanitarianism, and the Irish White Cross, 1921–19470
Oral history as an analytical tool: Eve Mahlab and the Australian Trailblazing Women Law Project0
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