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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Women’s history at the cutting edge. An Italian perspective12
Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–19008
‘We support child support:’ American women’s activism through the association for children for enforcement of support, 1984–20058
Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–19976
Don’t call it magic: Indigenous knowledges in sixteenth-century Portuguese Inquisition trials of women in Brazil and West Africa6
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872–1937: campaigner for equality, justice and peace6
‘Delighting in fighting “a womanless past”: remembering Dale Spender (1943–2023)’5
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 ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula5
‘Taking birth back into our own hands:’ childbirth, feminism, and the interstitial archive in West Germany5
Women in New Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries4
Survival is a Promise: the eternal life of Audre Lorde4
Introduction: transnational women’s activism4
‘The right to choose? Facing infertility’: emotion and the evolving discussion of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Spare Rib4
Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada4
Ideal beauty: the life and times of Greta Garbo3
Flying ahead inside and outside of the circus tent, 1927–1960s: Ma and the Flying Melzoras3
A Chinese Portia: Laura M. White’s translation and reconstruction of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice3
‘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
‘Careers for women’: BBC women’s radio programmes and the ‘professional’, 1923–19553
In the shadow of genocide: female perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide3
Sardinia: women, history, books and places3
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history3
Homemaking as a civic duty: contestations on the role of Filipino women in the debate on suffrage2
Daring to hope, my life in the 1970s2
Ruth Price: creating a nation’s pop scene2
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
Out from the shadows: gendered archetypes and the landscape of history2
Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances2
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
Driven by nationalism and entertainment: the representation of ‘comfort women’ on Weibo2
Madge Gill: challenging domesticity2
The translation of women within the context of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement (1868–1935)2
Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies2
Frances Duberly: a failed Crimean heroine?2
Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women1
Men and masculinities in modern Britain: A history for the present1
‘Appropriated to her own use and benefit’: women, larceny, and race in post-Civil War South Carolina1
Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–19491
Minnie Pallister: the Voice of a Rebel1
The missing and imagined perpetrator in rape prevention efforts1
Viewpoint: engaging the public with the Pankhurst home1
The business of birth: malpractice and maternity care in the United States1
Vietnamese ‘comfort women’: history without memory1
‘Why, it’s like Belgium!’: the Women’s International League in the Irish War of Independence 1919–19211
Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: a beard to govern1
Images of Chinese women in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exotic knowledge books1
Historicising the perpetrators of sexual violence: global perspectives from the modern world1
Sharing work and family: women teachers who wed male teachers in Ottoman Palestine1
Reading letters of an eighteenth-century femme philosophe: love as an existential and creative force in Émilie Du Châtelet’s correspondence1
Carmen Callil (1938–2022): an appreciation1
Unveiling non-elite female knowledge: accusations of witchcraft and social networks in seventeenth-century Lisbon1
An eastern feminist perspective on the ‘woman question’: the activity, thought and writing of ‘A‘isha Taymur & Malak Hifni Nasif1
Savile’s shadow: exceptionalism and shifting historical perpetration narratives, 1964–20121
A history of survival: preserving and working with an archive of single parent activism1
Archiving, exhibiting, and curating the history of feminisms in the global twentieth century: an introduction1
Youth, suffering and ‘comfort women’ in Timor-Leste: towards a people's perspective of history1
Socialisation and class regulation in Catholic convent schools: Australia, 1875–19201
Translocal homemaking and home unmaking in the letter memoir of Alice Lucy Hodson1
Archiving the initiative of the Chinese rural left-behind women of migrant men in modern epistolary narratives (1910s–1920s)1
Distorting the witness: how digital mediation shapes contemporary understandings of wartime sexual violence in the Anti-Japanese War1
Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz1
Congratulations to Rachel Reeves who, in 2024, becomes the first woman to be Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK1
Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain1
Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue1
Woman and Her Sphere: niche bookselling: niche research1
Visiting medical staff in Soviet Lithuania: between duties to the regime and women’s needs1
Introduction: reflections on women's history from Japan1
British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image in Post-war Britain1
Virgínia de Castro e Almeida and women’s presence in international cooperation during the interwar period1
The ‘comfort women’ of Malaysia and Singapore as transnational history and memory1
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
Indonesian women’s journey reflection: understanding the past, present and future challenges0
Illegal treatment for immoral sex: abortion among single women in 1940s Shanghai0
Material lives: women makers and consumer culture in the eighteenth century0
Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control0
Women, media, and power in Indonesia0
Abortion: a history0
‘Well-bred and conventional ladies’: the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland/Northern Ireland0
Screening women’s history in the film Suffragette (2015): between intersectional feminist activism and historical memory0
Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-century England0
The National Women’s Alliance in interwar Yugoslavia: between feminist reform and institutional social politics0
Lads’ mags and the postfeminist masquerade: the aftermath of an era of inequality0
Gisela Bock (1942-2025): leading historian of women's and gender history0
The representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation0
Remembering my friend and colleague Gisela Bock0
The motif of tears: representations of activism and suffering in the Liji Alley Museum in Nanjing0
Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher0
‘Carrying it on her shoulder, like an Irish-woman’: early modern English traveller perceptions of women in Ireland, America, and Africa, 1555–17450
Cheap labour: gendered jurisdictions and feminizing capitalism0
Staging emancipation and its limits: East German cultural diplomacy, the German Democratic Women’s League, and the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin0
History and legacy of the suffragette fellowship: calling all women0
Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)0
Campus protest0
Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women0
‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–19140
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home0
‘Domestic tyranny’ and ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia0
Can an archive be revolutionary?: how to document radical aspirations in a time of dissensus0
Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–220
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press0
The women of Rendezvous: A transatlantic story of family and slavery0
Male suicide and masculinity in 19th-century Britain: stories of self-destruction0
‘Girls, Don’t Talk Slang!’: late-Victorian verbal hygiene and contested gender roles0
Taking travel home: the souvenir culture of British women tourists, 1750-18300
A genealogy of silencing: tracing the impact of critiques of the hegemonic discourse on female genital mutilation0
‘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
Herawati Diah’s cultural diplomacy: redefining the role of a diplomat’s spouse in 1950s–1960s Indonesia0
In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States0
Religion, Gender and Race in Western European Arts and Culture: thinking through religious transformation0
Challenging domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990: special issue introduction0
Beyond the headlines: Annie Holt and her Australian matrimonial agency0
Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity0
Succession revolution: feminist movements and the birth of female heir in China, 1928–19300
Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime0
‘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
‘I Do Not Believe In Silence’ by Clare Shaw, from Head On (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)0
Intersectionality of early sexual trauma and aging in two Truku comfort women survivors’ life trajectories0
‘They Call Me Babu’: the politics of visibility and gendered memories of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia0
‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school0
Oral histories of Tibetan women: whispers from the roof of the world (Routledge research in gender and history)0
L ibertine London: sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis0
Deserted wives and economic divorce in 19th-century England and Wales: ‘for wives alone’0
Representing women across the public/private divide: Kerstin Hesselgren’s image in the Swedish digital archives0
Sexual violence, deviance, and the paraphilias in American psychiatry, 1952–20130
Women, faith, and anti-apartheid activism in late twentieth-century Britain0
Out of His Mind: Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain0
Testimonies of affect: Native American women’s histories of violence on California’s Pacific North Coast0
The Strongest Link: An Oral History of Wartime Rape Survivors in Kosovo0
Feminist Mental Health Activism in England0
Dale Spender (1943–2023): some personal reflections0
Lady amateurs and women musicians: parlour music composers in 1890s Australia0
The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000)0
Mirabai in public spheres0
The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–19140
Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s0
International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain0
Emma Goldman’s ‘the traffic in women’ revisited: sex work, sweatshops, and discourses of slavery0
On Katherine Turk’s The Women of NOW , feminist historiography and the popular memory of the second wave0
Exile and fieldwork as liminal conditions: Leonore Kosswig’s life and research in Turkey, 1937–19730
Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain0
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
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers0
‘Real rape’ and the coverage of sexual violence in Dutch newspapers, 1880 to 19300
‘Television grew with us, and we grew with television’: women producers, cultural programming and governmentality in early Indian television (1970s–1980s)0
Roe: the history of a national obsession0
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg and the International Council of Women: the Finnish feminist's international success and national adversity, 1888–19110
Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us about Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging0
Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession: a gendered opportunity0
The betrayal of Anne Frank: a cold case investigation0
‘He struck his wife, but said it was in circumstances of great provocation’: gendered conflict in fin de siècle New South Wales0
The female imagination: a literary and psychological investigation of women’s writing0
On this day she: putting women back into history one day at a time Jo Bell0
Expanding the possibilities of historiography: from the experience of the exhibition ‘gender in Japanese history’0
‘Surveying value in women's work: a view through the eyes of the International Council of Women's broadcasting committee 1935–1960’0
Reproductive rights in modern France: feminism, contraception and abortion, 1950–19800
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The ‘Black Ghost’ of Bermondsey0
Pregnancy and performance: Irish women’s strategies for childbirth from Dublin workhouses to New York hospitals, 1855–18650
‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp0
Adventures in sound. Rhoda Power, archaeology and BBC Schools Radio, 1941–19450
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
‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair0
A caïda, the exception in the history of colonial Algeria0
Factors of avoidability: maternal mortality in Northern Ireland, 1948–19690
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 thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement0
Edith Summerskill: letters from deserted wives0
‘A grotesque excuse for shirking what must be done’: the Medical Women’s Federation survey menstruation, 1925–19490
Rehabilitating homes and humans: probation, gender and domesticity in Britain, 1907–19600
‘Gloried in her grotesque and spurious manhood’: constructing the uniformed woman of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1907–19200
The financing of convents by women in Ireland, 1774–18600
Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–17980
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
Women on the Right: politics and social action in comparative and transnational perspective, 1870s–1990s0
Great expectations and hard times:- the advent of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and women’s entry to the legal profession0
Gender and Punishment in Ireland: Women, Murder and the Death Penalty, 1922–640
‘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
‘Facts that are declared proven’: sexual violence, forensic medicine, and the courtroom in early Francoist Spain.0
Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves0
Catholic social reform and the politics of birth control in the New Deal era0
Australian academic women and promotion since 1975: patriarchal equilibrium?0
Lady doctors and bean picking: a woman doctor’s influence on menstrual education and myth in one girls’ boarding school in England, 1912–19320
The archival practice of ‘comfort women’ documentary Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue0
Fixing women: the birth of obstetrics and gynecology in Britain and America0
Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 , by Kate Gibson, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 0
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–19750
Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century0
Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting0
Arriving from the revolution: International Women’s Year in the Portuguese ‘Hot Summer’0
‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–19590
‘Notes on a Community Struggle’ Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the ‘mass struggle of housewives’0
Phyllis Murray née Keller (1888–1977): suffragette, sportswoman, dancer, gardener, woodworker, dressmaker, car mechanic and much-loved grandmother0
Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–19380
The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW): from its radical preamble to its contemporary intersectional approach0
Unclean dirt: Katharine Bruce Glasier and the pithead baths campaign, 1906–19260
History on trial: the abortion wars0
The ‘new woman’ under institutional patriarchy: middle-school students’ interpersonal relationships in Republican China0
Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–19450
‘Against forgetting’: the struggle for inclusive remembrance in the ‘comfort women’ discourse0
The international council of women in Spain during the first third of the twentieth century: reception, influence and exchanges0
Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–19950
‘Alice Diamond, giant—queen of the terrors’: female gangsterism, violence and criminal mythmaking in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century London ‘underworld’0
Gendered urbanization, women’s invisibility, and the making of ‘men’s city’ in colonial Enugu–Nigeria, 1909–19600
Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice , edited by Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke, James 0
What was it like to be sixteen and female when the UK’s Sex Discrimination Act (1975) was passed?0
The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe0
Donald Trump and American women: from Hillary Clinton’s What Happened to Trump’s 2024 re-election0
Mrs Ann Errington of Sacriston: the political biography of a Durham miner's wife between the wars0
Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018)0
Deeds and words: suffrage and the London library0
Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe0
Domestic Space in Britain, 1750–1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion0
The boss: female executives and the inertia of postfeminism0
Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world0
Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: the life and writing of a remarkable female intellectual0
Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–19400
‘For the benefit of mothers and children:’ welfare, daycare, and cheap labor in the 1960s0
The hidden half: the double lives of Chinese migrant women in post-war Britain0
Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–19850
The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life0
‘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 Loving Embrace: Women’s Legal Mobilization in favor of a Feminist Constitution in Colombia in 19910
Irish women’s wartime networks: care work and female agency on the first world war home front0
‘To remember everything, to remember always’: the writing of trauma as working through in Maria Rosa Henson’s Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny0
Introduction: women’s and gender history in the Iberian worlds: global knowledge production0
Knowledge production and activism on the ‘comfort women’ in Northeast and Southeast Asia0
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings0
Early modern Iberian religious women and pilgrimage: a network of support0
Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)0
Women’s activism and state policies during International Women’s Year and the United Nations decade for women: a comparative perspective0
Female philanthropic voluntary action: the battle for the hearts, minds and souls of Victorian sailors, soldiers and their families0
A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain0
Recent trends in Japanese research on European gender history: beyond the nation-state and Eurocentric narratives0
Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–19930
‘We did what needed to be done’: Cherish, the first support group for unmarried mothers in Ireland0
Ingenious trade: women and work in seventeenth-century London0
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra0
Koizumi Ikuko: The making of a Christian feminist in imperial Japan, 1892–19220
A grand day for Congleton: unveiling the statue Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, Britain’s most radical suffragist0
Fashioning and advocacy: Jeanne ‘Johnny’ Bradnock and the valuing of BBC television make-up and wardrobe, 1946–19640
Silenced narratives of ‘comfort women’: Japanese women as gendered imperial subjects0
Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society0
The mystery of nurse Catherine Pine's suffragette medal—and its solution0
Patterns in a short life: Theodosia Barker Dean (1819–1843) the first British-born woman to publish in Chinese0
Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill0
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe0
‘The negro type of beauty’: Black Women modernist muses in Jacob Epstein’s Art, 1915–19590
Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt0
0.036725044250488