OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Asian Journal of Womens Studies 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.)

Article	Citations
Decolonizing mobility: Indonesian women's travel writing as political intervention	30
植民地朝鮮と「出産の場」: 産婆と胎教の衛生史 (Colonial Korea and the “Sites of Childbirth:” A Hygienic History of Midwives and T'aegyo)	28
No boy in lady’s room: How China’s radical digital feminists alienate themselves from mothers, girls, and gays	7
Asian women’s studies after three decades: Institutional success, epistemic limitations, and the imperative of transnational solidarity	7
Sexuality and the rise of China: The post-1990s gay generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China	7
Experiments in Skin: race and beauty in the shadows of Vietnam	6
Sarcasm or sexism? Media framing of Duterte’s misogynistic speeches	6
휘말린 날들: HIV, 감염 그리고 질병과 함께 미래 짓기 (Entangled Days: HIV, infection, and building futures with illness)	6
Revisiting the gendered ideal worker norm: An ethnography in Chinese non-governmental organizations	6
Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 30th anniversary roundtable	5
Negotiating feminist solidarity amid digital nationalism: analyzing Chinese debate to the 2024 South Korean deepfake sex crime	5
Can nakedness speak? Re-thinking Mahasweta Devi’s narratives of insurgent victimhood in the era of naked protests	5
Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the lives of China’s workers	5
A hidden yet emerging Asian racial capitalism: South Korea’s dynamics in the care industry	5
The politics of speaking up: Sexual consent and student activism in Japanese universities	5
Lady doctors: The untold stories of India’s first women in medicine	4
Historical development of Gender Studies at Tribhuvan University Nepal	4
Remapping the feminist global: Cascading questions and conundrums	4
Justification of headscarf bans in Europe and Turkey: A comparative analysis	4
Reading-through be-longing: Towards a methodology for political sciences otherwise	3
Scarred: a feminist journey through pain	3
The mask of modernity: An autotheoretical reading of feminist contradictions in contemporary Kerala	3
Between academia and activism: Gender studies in Timor-Leste	2
Feminist collaboration(s) and affect: Work with pastoral women	2
Creation of chaste Muslim widows in late imperial Confucian-Islamic cultural encounters	2

Why do some women hate feminists? Social media and the structural limitation of Chinese digital feminism	2
Contesting patriarchy: Employment and gender roles of East Asian middle-class marriage migrants in Taiwan	2
Mapping Dalit feminism: towards an intersectional standpoint Mapping Dalit feminism: towards an intersectional standpoint , by Anandita Pan, New Delhi, Sage Publications	2
The state’s sexuality: Prostitution and postcolonial state building in South Korea	2
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak	2
From women’s studies to gender studies in Mongolia: Decolonial readings of a post-socialist trajectory	2
Shifting the struggle inward: Mainstream debate on digital grassroots feminism in China	1
Resistance through clothing styles: Iranian young women’s body representation in public spaces	1
Feminist themes in Hallyu 4.0 South Korean TV dramas as a reflection of a changing sociocultural landscape	1
A mosaic of identities, opportunities, and challenges: How intersectionality shapes the experiences of female water, sanitation, and hygiene entrepreneurs in Indonesia	1
Returning home: Gendered readjustments for foreign educated Pakistani women	1
Spaces for collective engagement with gender issues in Asia: Creative Common s exhibit, Tokyo 2024	1
Feminist foreign policy and global (health) care work migration: Addressing the invisibility of colonial gaps in feminist policy making	1
Warring genealogies: Race, kinship, and the Korean War	1
“I’m not a feminist, but … ”: Hegemonic femininities and women’s autonomy revisited in a Chinese university	1
The politics of reproductive governance: Women’s bodies and biopower in Thailand	1
Rated A: Soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India	1
Forum editor’s note: Gender studies in culturally distinct and diverse Asian contexts	1
When dating shows encounter parents: A reception study of Chinese Dating among Chinese young female audiences	1
The politics of gender representation and successful ageing in internet pornography	1
Women’s civil response to disaster areas: The example of the February 2023 earthquake in Türkiye	1
Gender justice and contemporary Asian literatures: A casebook	0
Seeing labor: A critical socialist feminist analysis of the “call for rest spaces for cleaner ayi (aunties)” activism on Xiaohongshu	0
Challenging gender mainstreaming through the narrative of Islamic youth organization: A case study on Persis in Indonesia	0
Locally grown seeds, natural fertilizer, and pranata mangsa: Women farmers practicing sustainable agriculture while contesting the Green Revolution in Indonesia	0
The unborn (Taiwan) black Pacific	0
A study of postcolonial representation of sexual violence against female international students in Australian newspapers	0
Female friendship and care in a North Indian university	0
“Desiring a puppy-like lover”: older women and younger men romantic TV dramas and Chinese postfeminism	0
Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex: Transnational Framing, Interpretation, and Impact	0
Not just a man’s war: Chinese women’s memories of the war of resistance against Japan, 1931–45	0
Career stories of becoming a woman surgeon in male-dominated fields in Türkiye	0
The here and now of Asian Journal of Women’s Studies in its 31st year—with responses	0
Reproductive politics and the making of modern India	0
Wombs of empire: population discourses and biopolitics in modern Japan	0
State feminism with Chinese characteristics: The inextricable link between women’s political representation and political episteme in contemporary China (2013–2023)	0
Memsahib s, modernity and the Hindi cinema: The curious case of Mr. & Mrs. 55	0
Student Journalism as advocacy for gender-based violence survivors: The case of Indonesia	0
The autonomous women’s movement in India: Beyond the NGOization framework	0
“Dia Dikader”: Women’s NGOs roles, networks, and the agency of women’s legislative candidates in West Sumatra	0
A slight angle	0
Resisting biopower for reproductive rights: Iranian women’s hashtags	0
Tensions, challenges, and opportunities for feminist scholarship in today’s imperial global knowledge structures	0
Transformation of marriage migrants to diasporic actors and rethinking female agency: Ukrainian women in Türkiye	0
An empirical assessment of the effectiveness of gender budget initiatives on women’s political empowerment	0
Gender, Islamic feminism, and the advocacy for the sexual violence eradication bill in contemporary Indonesia	0
Young women’s interfaith feminist peacebuilding and grassroots democracy in West Sumatra	0
Women and leadership: Real lives, real lesson Women and leadership: Real lives, real lesson , by Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2021, 3	0
The city, PKK leaders, and women’s empowerment	0
Career patterns and policies of female leaders in China	0

Mother Mary comes to me	0
Hashtag justice: Digital activism and the justice interests of school-related sexual violence survivors through the # HijaAko movement	0
A critical analysis of TERF politics in South Korea: The contradictory constructions of “Western feminism” and its legitimizing effects	0
Flowers of fire: The inside story of South Korea's feminist movement and what it means for women's rights worldwide	0
Corporate women in contemporary China: “We’ve always worked”	0
Whose feminism does the translation speak for? Gladys Yang’s translations of Zhang Jie	0
Counter-discourses to social inequalities and urban modernity: Subaltern women in post-2000s Chinese science fiction	0
Queer archives in Asia: A collaborative introduction to some challenges and possibilities	0
Medicine meets red feminism: Yi Tǒgyo (1897–1932), a pioneering Korean feminist physician	0
Gendered dimensions of ontological (in)security: Women’s selective exclusion in the New Turkey narrative under the JDP government	0
Women, work and tea plantations: mapping gender on laboring bodies	0
Touring the online matchmaking platform: A study of the “sado-ritual syndrome” with a special reading of Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine	0
The capability approach in empirical women’s studies: A scoping review	0
Farewell message from the Editor-in-Chief	0
(In)visible spaces: Probing into the politics of same sex belonging in Geetanjali Shree’s The Roof Beneath Their Feet	0
Gendered technologies of genocide: Forced marriage and the collapse of protection for Gazan girls	0
Gender disenfranchisement in Hong Kong churches	0
Dreadful desires: The uses of love in neoliberal China Dreadful desires: The uses of love in neoliberal China , by Charlie Yi Zhang, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022,	0
From immorality to empowerment? A feminist critical discourse analysis of taboo (de)construction in female sex toy marketing discourse in China	0
An institutional ethnography analysis on skilled Chinese immigrant mothers’ experiences in Canada	0
The “hot Taiwanese girl” persona: The dynamics of politics and femininity in Taiwan	0
From campus to legislatures: Women’s experience of electoral politics in Indonesia	0
My dear Kabul: A year in the life of an Afghan women’s writing group	0
Healing labor: Japanese sex work in the gendered economy	0
Correction	0
Intersectionality and humanity: A keynote for “remapping the feminist global”	0
Being a Khaddama: Narratives of home, belonging and identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf	0
A half-hearted project: WGS in Pakistan	0
Revisiting the concept of women’s political ambitions: A case study of Malaysia	0
Constellating home: Trans and queer Asian American rhetorics	0
Language, gender, and informal power: A semiotic analysis of the Chinese hip-hop song Sis	0
Concubinage, family, and law in colonial India: negotiating domesticity, custom, and legal reform (1757–1947)	0
The economics of gender in China: Women, work and the glass ceiling	0
The prevalence of officer-involved domestic violence cases in Mongolia: From the perspective of support service providers	0
The new crusades: Islamophobia and the global war on Muslims The new crusades: Islamophobia and the global war on Muslims , by Khaled A. Beydoun, Oakland, University of	0
Speaking up against sexual assault on campus: A discussion on three cases of student-led activism in Asia	0
Desexualizing gendered gazes: English translations and gender configurations in Luotuo Xiangzi	0
Queer throughlines: Spaces of queer activism in South Korea and the Korean diaspora	0
Social media as an enabler of women’s entrepreneurial empowerment during the pandemic	0
Remapping the connections between feminism and secularism: A study of the women’s movements in India and their engagements with religion	0