Womens History Review

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective10
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20057
Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–19005
Introduction: transnational women’s activism4
Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–19974
Women in New Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries4
Don’t call it magic: Indigenous knowledges in sixteenth-century Portuguese Inquisition trials of women in Brazil and West Africa4
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace4
The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula3
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 1950s3
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo3
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’3
Distant sisters: Australasian women and the international struggle for the vote, 1880–19143
‘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
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany3
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada3
Survival is a Promise: the eternal life of Audre Lorde3
In the shadow of genocide: female perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide2
‘Careers for women’: BBC women’s radio programmes and the ‘professional’, 1923–19552
Teenage Intimacies: young women, sex and social life in England, 1950–802
Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain2
Sardinia: women, history, books and places2
Out from the shadows: gendered archetypes and the landscape of history2
Survival as Victory: Ukrainian women in the Gulag2
Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies2
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?2
Flying ahead inside and outside of the circus tent, 1927–1960s: Ma and the Flying Melzoras2
Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene2
A Chinese Portia: Laura M. White’s translation and reconstruction of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice2
Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé , by Elizabeth Cobbs, Cambridge, Harvard 2
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history2
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)1
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances1
Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo1
Archiving the initiative of the Chinese rural left-behind women of migrant men in modern epistolary narratives (1910s–1920s)1
The business of birth: malpractice and maternity care in the United States1
Black left feminism in pre-revolutionary Cuba: the life and work of Esperanza Sánchez Mastrapa (1901–1958)1
Sisters and Sisterhood: The Kenney Family, Class, & Suffrage, 1890-19651
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence1
Surviving home: womanhood, contentious intimacy & the trauma of home in Tobago, 1900–19601
Introduction: reflections on women's history from Japan1
Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: a beard to govern1
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction1
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world1
Socialisation and class regulation in Catholic convent schools: Australia, 1875–19201
Daring to hope, my life in the 1970s1
Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing1
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida and women’s presence in international cooperation during the interwar period1
The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts1
Unveiling non-elite female knowledge: accusations of witchcraft and social networks in seventeenth-century Lisbon1
Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: history without memory1
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz1
The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory1
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–19211
Translocal homemaking and home unmaking in the letter memoir of Alice Lucy Hodson1
Youth, suffering and ‘comfort women’ in Timor-Leste: towards a people's perspective of history1
Transformative waters in late-medieval literature: From Aelred of Rievaulx to The Book of Margery Kempe1
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present1
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity1
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives1
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism1
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain1
Viewpoint: engaging the public with the Pankhurst home1
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue1
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20121
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
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women1
Recent trends in Japanese research on European gender history: beyond the nation-state and Eurocentric narratives0
Women and reproductive technologies: the socio-economic development of technologies changing the world0
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
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
‘The thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement0
‘Real rape’ and the coverage of sexual violence in Dutch newspapers, 1880 to 19300
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
‘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
Challenging colonial knowledge: gender and sexuality of Indigenous women in sixteenth-century Brazil0
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 financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774–18600
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: a gendered opportunity0
Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–17980
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
Great expectations and hard times:- the advent of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and women’s entry to the legal profession0
Expanding the possibilities of historiography: from the experience of the exhibition ‘gender in Japanese history’0
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families0
Material Masculinities: men and goods in eighteenth-century England0
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world0
‘World enemy bolshevism’: gender, journalism & the continuities of ideological conflict in Germany, 1933–19550
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0
‘I Do Not Believe In Silence’ by Clare Shaw, from Head On (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)0
‘They Call Me Babu’: the politics of visibility and gendered memories of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia0
Australian academic women and promotion since 1975: patriarchal equilibrium?0
Sacred bundles unborn0
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe0
Lady doctors and bean picking: a woman doctor’s influence on menstrual education and myth in one girls’ boarding school in England, 1912–19320
An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women’s Rights0
Women’s activism and state policies during International Women’s Year and the United Nations decade for women: a comparative perspective0
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–19750
Revisiting the legacy: the historical influence of Mary Daly, Janice Raymond, and Shelia Jeffreys on ‘gender-critical’ feminism0
The hidden half: the double lives of Chinese migrant women in post-war Britain0
A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation0
A ‘master-mistress’: revisiting the history of eighteenth-century wives0
Fixing women: the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in Britain and America0
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.0
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe0
‘Alice Diamond, giant—queen of the terrors’: female gangsterism, violence and criminal mythmaking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century London ‘underworld’0
‘To remember everything, to remember always’: the writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny0
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20130
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
Reading between the lines: marginalised sisters at Nostell Priory, 1765-18000
Dale Spender (1943–2023): some personal reflections0
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): from its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach0
Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s0
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
Earthquake in Turkey and Syria February 20230
Knowledge production and activism on the ‘comfort women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia0
The ‘new woman’ under institutional patriarchy: middle-school students’ interpersonal relationships in Republican China0
Movie workers: the women who made British cinema0
Taking travel home: the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-18300
French feminisms, global imperialisms—some historiographical reflections on writing Feminism’s Empire0
Body problems: what intersex priest sally gross teaches us about embodiment, justice, and belonging0
‘The negro type of beauty’: Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein’s Art, 1915–19590
‘For the benefit of mothers and children:’ welfare, daycare, and cheap labor in the 1960s0
Time, labour, and the ‘dual role’: Viola Klein’s study of ‘Professional Womanpower’ as a feminist archive0
Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–19400
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
Screening women’s history in the film Suffragette (2015): between intersectional feminist activism and historical memory0
‘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
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press0
From ‘literary air hostesses’ to ‘top bananas’: the professional identity of the woman publisher in Australia0
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings0
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–17450
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–19590
Edith Summerskill: letters from deserted wives0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain0
Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society0
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves0
Early modern Iberian religious women and pilgrimage: a network of support0
Koizumi Ikuko: The making of a Christian feminist in imperial Japan, 1892–19220
Unclean dirt: Katharine Bruce Glasier and the pithead baths campaign, 1906–19260
The Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19910
Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–19850
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture: thinking through religious transformation0
The motif of tears: representations of activism and suffering in the Liji Alley Museum in Nanjing0
‘Domestic tyranny’ and ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia0
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher0
The governess in nineteenth-century Ulster middle-class households0
‘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
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Rehabilitating homes and humans: probation, gender and domesticity in Britain, 1907–19600
Standing with the women, men and children in Ukraine0
Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian feminist and female intellectual. Who was she and why has she been forgotten?0
Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women0
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra0
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–19450
Crime in the nineteenth-century Irish home0
Women and Gender in the Qur’an0
‘It was the Presentation nuns who made a rebel of me’: women religious and Ireland’s Revolutionary Era0
The women of Rendezvous: A transatlantic story of family and slavery0
Feminist Mental Health Activism in England0
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
Patterns in a short life: Theodosia Barker Dean (1819–1843) the first British-born woman to publish in Chinese0
Hilja Pärssinen and the religious grounds for socialist welfare in early twentieth-century Finland0
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
Herawati Diah’s cultural diplomacy: redefining the role of a diplomat’s spouse in 1950s–1960s Indonesia0
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
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
The international council of women in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century: reception, influence and exchanges0
Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality0
Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)0
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century0
Beyond the headlines: Annie Holt and her Australian matrimonial agency0
Where was women’s work? Gender, work and urban space in Amsterdam, 1650–17910
‘Against forgetting’: the struggle for inclusive remembrance in the ‘comfort women’ discourse0
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–220
History on trial: the abortion wars0
Ingenious trade: women and work in seventeenth-century London0
Introduction: women’s and gender history in the Iberian worlds: global knowledge production0
Testimonies of affect: Native American women’s histories of violence on California’s Pacific North Coast0
Women’s suffrage in word, image, music, stage and screen. the making of a movement0
Campus protest0
Henrietta Howard: mistress, survivor, imperialist?0
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
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland0
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars0
‘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
Women, religion and associativism: the aristocratic origins of the National Council of Italian Women, 1903–19080
The boss: female executives and the inertia of postfeminism0
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction0
‘He struck his wife, but said it was in circumstances of great provocation’: gendered conflict in fin de siècle New South Wales0
Illegal treatment for immoral sex: abortion among single women in 1940s Shanghai0
Care for the care takers: the refugee crisis as opportunity for change0
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
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime0
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–19140
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
Irish women’s wartime networks: care work and female agency on the first world war home front0
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 18540
‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school0
Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction0
‘Gloried in her grotesque and spurious manhood’: constructing the uniformed woman of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1907–19200
‘Notes on a Community Struggle’ Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the ‘mass struggle of housewives’0
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation0
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
Frontiers of human capital? women and the professions in the Angloworld0
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers0
Intersectionality of early sexual trauma and aging in two Truku comfort women survivors’ life trajectories0
Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects0
White blouses in the blackshirt nation: women and uniforms in Fascist italy0
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey0
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain0
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
Roe: the history of a national obsession0
The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–19140
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
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
Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting0
Emma Goldman’s ‘the traffic in women’ revisited: sex work, sweatshops, and discourses of slavery0
‘A perfect farce’: the practice of claiming damages for adultery in the late-Victorian divorce court0
Cheap labour: gendered jurisdictions and feminizing capitalism0
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
Mirabai in public spheres0
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control0
The Statue of Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) in Dukes Plaza, Woking0
Women, media, and power in Indonesia0
Reconstructing subjectivity from silence: Julia Margaret Cameron, Mary Ryan and the Victorian archive0
Oral histories of Tibetan women: whispers from the roof of the world (Routledge research in gender and history)0
Phyllis Murray née Keller (1888–1977): suffragette, sportswoman, dancer, gardener, woodworker, dressmaker, car mechanic and much-loved grandmother0
The archival practice of ‘comfort women’ documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue0
Feminist lives: women, feelings, and the self in post-war Britain0
Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–640
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)0
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
Deeds and words: suffrage and the London library0
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life0
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 representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation0
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