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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
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Digital feminist labour: the immaterial, aspirational and affective labour of feminist activists and fempreneurs6
Scholar-diplomats, protodiplomacy and the communication of history: Alice Stopford Green and Jean Jules Jusserand5
Suffrage scrapbooks and emotional histories of women’s activism4
A ‘master-mistress’: revisiting the history of eighteenth-century wives4
Indecent exposure: a serious ‘nuisance’ offence3
A tale of two feminisms: gender critical feminism, trans inclusive feminism and the case of Kathleen Stock3
Rallying women: activism, archives and affect3
Practical, everyday feminism: mothers, politicians, and Mumsnet2
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria February 20232
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland2
Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 18542
‘A meeting of different tribes’? Travelling women and mobility between European and Australasian women’s lands2
Standing with the women, men and children in Ukraine2
Mirabai in public spheres2
‘They Call Me Babu’: the politics of visibility and gendered memories of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia2
Public toilets for women: how female municipal councillors expanded the right to the city in Sweden, c. 1910–19251
1933: the year of lesbian modernism in Poland?1
Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s1
Dutch women and the Lesbian International1
Girmit, intimacy and sexual violence: indentured women on colonial sugar plantations, c. 1834–19171
Lesbian mothers in twenty-first century Australia: creating a political subject position1
Fertility control in ancient Rome1
Feminist avenues for listening in: amplifying silenced histories of media and communication1
Rigged against them: women camera operators at the BBC during the 1970s and 1980s1
From stay-at-home women to career-minded women: the Istanbul YWCA, 1919–19301
The ‘awkward’ squad: British women foreign correspondents during the interwar years1
‘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 story1
Mobilising affect and trauma: the politics of gendered memory and gendered silence1
The queens’ dressmakers: women’s work and the clothing trades in late seventeenth-century London1
The motif of tears: representations of activism and suffering in the Liji Alley Museum in Nanjing1
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history1
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)1
Where was women’s work? Gender, work and urban space in Amsterdam, 1650–17911
The women’s peace camp at Comiso, 1983: transnational feminism and the anti-nuclear movement1
Introduction: transnational women’s activism1
‘It is impossible to judge the extent to which the crime is prevalent’: infanticide and the law in India, 1870–19261
Care for the care takers: the refugee crisis as opportunity for change1
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: a campaign for justice1
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars1
Radical sex role ideology and the Finnish gender role movement in the late 1960s1
‘Education about “safe sex” could in this day and age save lives!’: Australian and American teen girl magazines during the time of AIDS1
The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts1
The First World War in a ‘women’s town’: Dundee 1914–19221
The international council of women in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century: reception, influence and exchanges1
Revisiting feminist historiography on women's activism in Turkey: beyond the grand narrative of waves1
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–19450
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life0
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present0
Roe: the history of a national obsession0
A grandmother's legacy. The gift that keeps on giving?0
History on trial: the abortion wars0
‘A strong woman’s troubles’: Victorina and the strong woman in Victorian Britain0
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
Commemorative modernisms: women writers, death and the First World War0
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany0
Daring to hope, my life in the 1970s0
Intimate communities: wartime healthcare and the birth of modern China, 1937–19450
Irene Barclay (1894-1989): the extraordinary career of the first woman chartered surveyor, and the development of the housing management profession0
The women who made modern economics0
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world0
Realities and fantasies of German female leadership0
Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political , by Jo Littler, 2023, London, Lawrence Wishart, 0
Shame and the Anti-Feminist backlash; Britain, Ireland and Australia, 1890–1920; Remembering women’s activism0
‘It was the Presentation nuns who made a rebel of me’: women religious and Ireland’s Revolutionary Era0
The ‘silver thread’: Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890–1982), the Six Point Group, and new understandings of intergenerational female activism in England, 1960s to 19800
The mystery of nurse Catherine Pine's suffragette medal—and its solution0
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé , by Elizabeth Cobbs, Cambridge, Harvard 0
Black left feminism in pre-revolutionary Cuba: the life and work of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa (1901–1958)0
Homes, food and domesticity: rethinking the housewife in twentieth century Britain0
In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States0
Remembering Shani D’Cruze (1954–2021)0
The hidden half: the double lives of Chinese migrant women in post-war Britain0
Sardinia: women, history, books and places0
Feminist transformations and domestic violence activism in divided Berlin, 1968–20020
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
Non-elite women’s networks across the early modern world0
Experiments in early US television: windows of opportunities for female technical workers in the 1940s0
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective0
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe0
Women and gardens: obstacles and opportunities for women gardeners throughout history0
Feminist lives: women, feelings, and the self in post-war Britain0
Piano music, fantasy, and Elizaveta Ivanova’s ambivalent feminism0
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 great Miss Lydia Becker0
Women in the world of adult education 1920–19450
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women0
Police Court Rota: women’s archiving and access to legal life in early twentieth-century England0
With her fist raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the transformative power of Black community activism0
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
The movie-struck girl in British Malaya, 1919–19370
Hilja Pärssinen and the religious grounds for socialist welfare in early twentieth-century Finland0
‘Real rape’ and the coverage of sexual violence in Dutch newspapers, 1880 to 19300
The Statue of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) in Dukes Plaza, Woking0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
Exile and fieldwork as liminal conditions: Leonore Kosswig’s life and research in Turkey, 1937–19730
Fixing women: the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in Britain and America0
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves0
Surviving home: womanhood, contentious intimacy & the trauma of home in Tobago, 1900–19600
National Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women: a renaissance of becoming visible0
White blouses in the blackshirt nation: women and uniforms in Fascist italy0
Movie workers: the women who made British cinema0
Oral histories of Tibetan women: whispers from the roof of the world (Routledge research in gender and history)0
Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s0
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain0
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20130
Indian sex life: sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought0
Worlds of knowledge in women’s travel writing0
Reconstructing subjectivity from silence: Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Ryan and the Victorian archive0
Saving ‘Ireland's children’: voluntary action, gender, humanitarianism, and the Irish White Cross, 1921–19470
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher0
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian women in the Gulag0
‘A perfect farce’: the practice of claiming damages for adultery in the late-Victorian divorce court0
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz0
‘Dis Köstliche Büchli’: the books of the Dünz, Wyss, and d’Hervart families at Nostell Priory0
Crime in the nineteenth-century Irish home0
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 1950s0
The representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation0
What is work? Gender at the crossroads of home, family, and business from the early modern era to the present (International Studies in Social History)0
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20050
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
‘It is because we could not write that it came to you’: women's history in testimonial narratives of resistance0
Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial0
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
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–220
Anne Knight (1786–1862) and the fight for women’s suffrage in the 1840s: political activism and multiple tactics0
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
Archiving the initiative of the Chinese rural left-behind women of migrant men in modern epistolary narratives (1910s–1920s)0
‘Careers for women’: BBC women’s radio programmes and the ‘professional’, 1923–19550
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
Rehabilitating homes and humans: probation, gender and domesticity in Britain, 1907–19600
Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian feminist and female intellectual. Who was she and why has she been forgotten?0
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
Women’s Institutes drama groups and Shakespeare in early twentieth-century England, 1919–19390
Changing the narrative and gendering Kenyan political history: Jael Mbogo's fight for parliamentary elections in the 1960s0
Republican women and Catholic Church responses to the strip searching of female prisoners in Northern Ireland, 1982–920
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers0
Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene0
An eastern feminist perspective on the ‘woman question’: the activity, thought and writing of ‘A‘isha Taymur & Malak Hifni Nasif0
An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights0
Introducing Lesbian Nation0
Early women barristers and the negotiation of professional and political identity0
Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–19490
The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation0
Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, & Suffrage, 1890-19650
The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula0
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity0
Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women0
The streets as a cloister. History of the daughters of charity. 17th-18th centuries0
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
Thanks to our Supporters during this COVID-19 Pandemic0
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
Congratulations to Rachel Reeves who, in 2024, becomes the first woman to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK0
‘Notes on a Community Struggle’ Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the ‘mass struggle of housewives’0
Female political facilitators: a case study of post-Napoleonic Rome0
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada0
The ‘old girls’ network’: media newsletters as feminist technologies in 1970s America0
Women’s suffrage in word, image, music, stage and screen. the making of a movement0
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue0
‘The stinking whirlpool of abuse and ignorance’: the marginalisation of sex workers in Ireland, c.1975–19850
Giving birth in eighteenth-century England0
In the heart of the Lesbian Nation: Iowa City, Iowa, and the building of a lesbian community0
‘On the respectability of this person every thing depends’: hospital matrons and power relations in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, c. 1817–18200
Testimonies of affect: Native American women’s histories of violence on California’s Pacific North Coast0
Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion0
The translation of women within the context of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement (1868–1935)0
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
Women’s activism and state policies during International Women’s Year and the United Nations decade for women: a comparative perspective0
‘When that hour strikes danger, we sally forth’: women doctors at war, 1939–19450
Protecting ‘injured female innocence’ or furthering ‘the rights of women?’ The sexual Slander of Women in New York and Victoria (1808–1887)0
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
Women's labor in Russian America0
Carmen Callil (1938–2022): an appreciation0
Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain0
Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)0
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
Labour women in power: cabinet ministers in the twentieth century0
The governess in nineteenth-century Ulster middle-class households0
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations0
Remembering Sappho: transatlantic ‘Lesbian Nations’ in the long nineteenth century0
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
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20120
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
Viewpoint: engaging the public with the Pankhurst home0
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction0
Black woman, singer and activist at ninety: Elza Soares and the history of women in post-abolition Brazil0
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
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances0
Sacred bundles unborn0
Wives walking away: concubinage, adultery, and violence in late colonial Bahia0
‘Che’ and Tania’s socks: Bolivian recollections of an ‘incorporated wife’0
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
Screening women’s history in the film Suffragette (2015): between intersectional feminist activism and historical memory0
Black female intellectuals in nineteenth century America, born to bloom unseen?0
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’0
Queenship and narratives of power in Welsh medieval sources0
A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden 1882–19600
Distant sisters. Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880-19140
Women’s activism online and the global struggle for social change0
‘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
Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–19970
The politicization of Mumsnet0
Building alternative archives. A reappraisal of Dwelling in the Archive by Antoinette Burton0
‘Were they to have petticoat government in the hospital?’ The reform of nursing in nineteenth-century Lincoln0
The Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19910
‘My how I have walked and worked to get those names’: Petitioning and the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States, 1908–1920.0
Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing0
The Politics of Women’s Suffrage: Local, National and International Dimensions0
Distant sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–19140
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families0
Professional women: the public, the private, and the political0
Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–19400
Minerva’s French sisters: women of science in enlightenment France0
Bringing life to Aberdeen: a history of maternity and neonatal services0
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
Postmistresses and the state, 1660–17150
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?0
Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–640
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
In continuous expectation: Isabella d'Este's reign of letters0
‘French lady seeks … ’: finding work as a French governess in late Victorian and Edwardian England (1870–1914)0
Afterword0
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): from its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach0
Gender, race, and the status of household labour in Lucy Maynard Salmon’s Domestic Service (1897)0
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
Lesbian Nation and Black nationalism0
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
Antonia Raeburn (1934–2021): an appreciation0
Reading between the lines: marginalised sisters at Nostell Priory, 1765-18000
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
‘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
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
Sylvia Plath: An Iconic Life0
Middle-class life in Victorian belfast0
Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century0
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo0
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.0
Gendered Transactions: the white woman in colonial India, c. 1820–19300
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
‘On the fringe of the Technical World’: female electrical appliance demonstrators in interwar Scotland0
‘World enemy bolshevism’: gender, journalism & the continuities of ideological conflict in Germany, 1933–19550
The ‘nun’ as narrative: religion, writing and reputation in the life of Mary Francis Cusack0
Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies0
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