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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective12
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20059
Don’t call it magic: Indigenous knowledges in sixteenth-century Portuguese Inquisition trials of women in Brazil and West Africa8
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany6
Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–19976
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’6
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace6
Women in New Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries5
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 1950s5
‘The right to choose? Facing infertility’: emotion and the evolving discussion of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Spare Rib4
The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula4
Introduction: transnational women’s activism4
Flying ahead inside and outside of the circus tent, 1927–1960s: Ma and the Flying Melzoras3
Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–19003
‘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 conflict3
‘One woman show’: Lillian Browse’s wartime exhibitions in Britain, 1940–453
Survival is a Promise: the eternal life of Audre Lorde3
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada3
Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain3
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo3
In the shadow of genocide: female perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide3
‘Careers for women’: BBC women’s radio programmes and the ‘professional’, 1923–19552
Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies2
Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo2
A Chinese Portia: Laura M. White’s translation and reconstruction of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice2
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity2
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history2
Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé , by Elizabeth Cobbs, Cambridge, Harvard 2
Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing2
The translation of women within the context of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement (1868–1935)2
Daring to hope, my life in the 1970s2
Teenage Intimacies: young women, sex and social life in England, 1950–802
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?2
Out from the shadows: gendered archetypes and the landscape of history2
Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene2
Homemaking as a civic duty: contestations on the role of Filipino women in the debate on suffrage2
British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-war Britain1
Youth, suffering and ‘comfort women’ in Timor-Leste: towards a people's perspective of history1
Visiting medical staff in Soviet Lithuania: between duties to the regime and women’s needs1
‘Girls! there’s still time to earn a man-size wage’: representing gender discrimination legislation in the 1970s in UK print media.1
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz1
Woman and Her Sphere: niche bookselling: niche research1
The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory1
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women1
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances1
Distorting the witness: how digital mediation shapes contemporary understandings of wartime sexual violence in the Anti-Japanese War1
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain1
The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts1
Viewpoint: engaging the public with the Pankhurst home1
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. A revolutionary life1
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction1
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida and women’s presence in international cooperation during the interwar period1
Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: history without memory1
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world1
Towards empowerment capital: a new lens on women’s ethnic associationalism in British migrant communities in Asia1
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present1
Images of Chinese women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exotic knowledge books1
Archiving the initiative of the Chinese rural left-behind women of migrant men in modern epistolary narratives (1910s–1920s)1
Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: a beard to govern1
‘Appropriated to her own use and benefit’: women, larceny, and race in post-Civil War South Carolina1
Unveiling non-elite female knowledge: accusations of witchcraft and social networks in seventeenth-century Lisbon1
The business of birth: malpractice and maternity care in the United States1
The ‘forgotten’ flower painter? Lee Boon Ngan and her quiet innovations in postcolonial Singapore1
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–19211
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20121
Learning by doing: the legacy of 1918 for female German antifascists1
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence1
Introduction: reflections on women's history from Japan1
‘Like Open Confectionery Shops’: female convents and commercial competition in eighteenth-century Valencia1
Sharing work and family: women teachers who wed male teachers in Ottoman Palestine1
Translocal homemaking and home unmaking in the letter memoir of Alice Lucy Hodson1
Socialisation and class regulation in Catholic convent schools: Australia, 1875–19201
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism1
‘What sort of mother is that?’: Natalia Gorbanevskaia, the Soviet human rights movement, and contested notions of motherhood under late Soviet socialism1
Women working in Irish language broadcasting: tensions between minority categories1
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue1
‘I Do Not Believe In Silence’ by Clare Shaw, from Head On (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)0
Herawati Diah’s cultural diplomacy: redefining the role of a diplomat’s spouse in 1950s–1960s Indonesia0
(Un)gendered workers and women's rights in authoritarian Czechoslovakia0
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world0
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers0
Taking travel home: the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-18300
Lady doctors and bean picking: a woman doctor’s influence on menstrual education and myth in one girls’ boarding school in England, 1912–19320
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
Deeds and words: suffrage and the London library0
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings0
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain0
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States0
Australian academic women and promotion since 1975: patriarchal equilibrium?0
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain0
The other Emmeline: the story of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence0
Colonized bodies: intersectional women’s movements of Korea and the Korean diaspora in the U.S.0
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–19750
Great expectations and hard times:- the advent of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and women’s entry to the legal profession0
Phyllis Murray née Keller (1888–1977): suffragette, sportswoman, dancer, gardener, woodworker, dressmaker, car mechanic and much-loved grandmother0
Women and the making of museums and galleries: histories, institutions, and hidden labour0
‘If she had not that pain, she would have the pain of labour’: abortion in nineteenth-century Ireland0
Oral histories of Tibetan women: whispers from the roof of the world (Routledge research in gender and history)0
Fashioning and advocacy: Jeanne ‘Johnny’ Bradnock and the valuing of BBC television make-up and wardrobe, 1946–19640
Labours of love? Gift labour, women, and exchange in mid-nineteenth century Britain0
‘Gloried in her grotesque and spurious manhood’: constructing the uniformed woman of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1907–19200
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
Women, media, and power in Indonesia0
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
‘The negro type of beauty’: Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein’s Art, 1915–19590
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
‘Television grew with us, and we grew with television’: women producers, cultural programming and governmentality in early Indian television (1970s–1980s)0
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: a gendered opportunity0
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars0
Loud shoes: art curation in Ipswich Museums0
‘Alice Diamond, giant—queen of the terrors’: female gangsterism, violence and criminal mythmaking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century London ‘underworld’0
Strategic negotiations in translation: Fatma Aliye’s Meram and the repositioning of women’s voices0
The Italian connection: Donne in Lotta per la Pace, the Women’s International Democratic Federation, and transnational pacifism in the 1980s0
The hidden half: the double lives of Chinese migrant women in post-war Britain0
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
‘For the benefit of mothers and children:’ welfare, daycare, and cheap labor in the 1960s0
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)0
The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–19140
What was it like to be sixteen and female when the UK’s Sex Discrimination Act (1975) was passed?0
Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women0
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture: thinking through religious transformation0
The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation0
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
‘The whole of this work to be done by men’: the gendered dynamics of museum work, c. 1850–19140
Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–17980
Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–19400
Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–19850
Indonesian women’s journey reflection: understanding the past, present and future challenges0
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
Beyond the headlines: Annie Holt and her Australian matrimonial agency0
Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting0
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey0
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra0
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
Edith Summerskill: letters from deserted wives0
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
Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society0
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families0
Introduction: women’s and gender history in the Iberian worlds: global knowledge production0
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher0
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction0
Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century0
Emma Goldman’s ‘the traffic in women’ revisited: sex work, sweatshops, and discourses of slavery0
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
Beyond the ‘bitter bread of dependence’: working women and the business of women’s dress in Dorothy Whipple’s High Wages (1930)0
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime0
‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–450
The Strongest Link: An Oral History of Wartime Rape Survivors in Kosovo0
‘Blessed be the fruit’: doing sports while breastfeeding, the making of gender bicategorisation0
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe0
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–19590
Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s0
Patterns in a short life: Theodosia Barker Dean (1819–1843) the first British-born woman to publish in Chinese0
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20130
History on trial: the abortion wars0
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
On Katherine Turk’s The Women of NOW , feminist historiography and the popular memory of the second wave0
Feminist Mental Health Activism in England0
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves0
Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt0
Knowledge production and activism on the ‘comfort women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia0
Mirabai in public spheres0
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
The boss: female executives and the inertia of postfeminism0
Remembering my friend and colleague Gisela Bock0
Unclean dirt: Katharine Bruce Glasier and the pithead baths campaign, 1906–19260
Pregnancy and performance: Irish women’s strategies for childbirth from Dublin workhouses to New York hospitals, 1855–18650
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
Lady amateurs and women musicians: parlour music composers in 1890s Australia0
Reproductive rights in modern France: feminism, contraception and abortion, 1950–19800
Revisiting the legacy: the historical influence of Mary Daly, Janice Raymond, and Shelia Jeffreys on ‘gender-critical’ feminism0
Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects0
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–17450
‘A grotesque excuse for shirking what must be done’: the Medical Women’s Federation survey menstruation, 1925–19490
Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality0
‘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
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe0
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–19140
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
Urban misogyny: the construction of the other in the discourse of laonü in China0
Gendered urbanization, women’s invisibility, and the making of ‘men’s city’ in colonial Enugu–Nigeria, 1909–19600
Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)0
Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction0
‘It’s a really empty feeling’: women’s experiences of miscarriage and pregnancy loss in late twentieth-century Ireland0
Women on the Right: politics and social action in comparative and transnational perspective, 1870s–1990s0
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
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation0
L ibertine London: sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis0
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–19450
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life0
‘Notes on a Community Struggle’ Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the ‘mass struggle of housewives’0
‘The thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement0
Frontiers of human capital? women and the professions in the Angloworld0
Fixing women: the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in Britain and America0
Deserted wives and economic divorce in 19th-century England and Wales: ‘for wives alone’0
Selling India goods: East Indies trade and the rise of female makers and retailers in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England0
The financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774–18600
Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-century England0
‘Surveying value in women's work: a view through the eyes of the International Council of Women's broadcasting committee 1935–1960’0
Interwoven histories: women and the making of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen0
The Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19910
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): from its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach0
Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: the life and writing of a remarkable female intellectual0
Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control0
Recognising women’s contributions to the Parliamentary Art Collection in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries0
Dale Spender (1943–2023): some personal reflections0
Catholic social reform and the politics of birth control in the New Deal era0
Queen Victoria’s fancy dress makers: modistes, royal patronage and bankruptcy in a West End fashion house, 1822–18760
Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–640
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
Cheap labour: gendered jurisdictions and feminizing capitalism0
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
The ‘new woman’ under institutional patriarchy: middle-school students’ interpersonal relationships in Republican China0
‘Against forgetting’: the struggle for inclusive remembrance in the ‘comfort women’ discourse0
‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school0
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
Provenance in practice: locating women in object histories0
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–220
The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe0
Illegal treatment for immoral sex: abortion among single women in 1940s Shanghai0
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
Campus protest0
Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us about Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging0
Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice , edited by Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James 0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
A caïda, the exception in the history of colonial Algeria0
The representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation0
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press0
Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain0
‘He struck his wife, but said it was in circumstances of great provocation’: gendered conflict in fin de siècle New South Wales0
‘To remember everything, to remember always’: the writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny0
Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain: the working girl0
Early modern Iberian religious women and pilgrimage: a network of support0
Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political , by Jo Littler, 2023, London, Lawrence Wishart, 0
The women of Rendezvous: A transatlantic story of family and slavery0
Expanding the possibilities of historiography: from the experience of the exhibition ‘gender in Japanese history’0
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Recent trends in Japanese research on European gender history: beyond the nation-state and Eurocentric narratives0
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
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