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Papers

(The median citation count of Feminist Theory is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
‘First I got one tear, and then I got a whole bunch’: fluidity and plasticine solidity in the world of Barbie	25
Deconstructing Barbenheimer: a feminist analysis of gender and the representation of nuclear war	19
A tale of two angers: The manosphere, the femosphere and the gender politics of mediated rage	16
Spatial terror: Towards a feminist theory of gendered space in postcolonial India	11
Geontopower as a feminist analytic: an interdisciplinary triangulation of women, water and feminist politics in India	10
Reading Object Lessons in India today	10
Melancholia and other negativities	9
‘Does this hurt?’: feminism, pain and the problem of reification	9
Figment made flesh: minstrelsy and nonbinary embodiment in Of Montreal's Georgie Fruit saga	8
Trauma, escape and claims to black metaphysical space: Black feminist engagements with ‘transracialism’	8
Social reproduction, struggle and the ecology of ‘women's work’ in world-literature	7
A conspiracy of cats: The curious case of the litterbox lie	6
Activist work is care work: conceptualising resistance in Indonesia and the Philippines through feminist ethics	6
Feeling Barbie: mothers, daughters, and white feminist genealogies	6
Disobedient anonymity and the politics of protesting violence against women	6
‘In pink, goes with everything’: the cultural politics of Greta Gerwig's Barbie	5
Innocence and experience in Barbie	5
Caring sideways: Sedgwick's queer siblings and feminism's generational time	5
Care workers, collectivisation and protest: a case for feminist and anti-capitalist resistance against the state	5
Pandemic reflections on the Care and Control exhibition: refusals, contracts and publics	4
Consent-deception: a feminist cultural media theory of commonsense consent	4
‘Never the twain shall cross’: scripts of children's play and adult desire in Barbie	3
Making difference profitable: Extraordinary homonormativity and corporate queer visibility	3
A roundtable discussion of Kathryn Claire Higgins and Sarah Banet-Weiser’s Believability: Sexual Violence, Media and the Politics of Doubt	3
Finding joy through Black intersex resistance	3

Ken's best friend: masculinities in Barbie	3
Ecofeminism and menstruation: menstrual practices with reusable menstrual products among Israeli women	3
Antifascist feminisms: forging a travesti-trans international	3
Ambivalent desiring subjects: young women, agency and post-(socialist-)feminist sensibilities in China	3
Memory as a wound in words: on trans-generational trauma, ethical memory and artistic speech	3
Towards a theory of reproductive debt	3
Gender-based violence and safety work in Higher Education	3
Self-care as resistance: Lorde, Foucault, and playfulness	2
‘Black, fat and travesti’: Decolonial artivist approaches to trans and travesti beauty and embodiment in São Paulo, Brazil	2
Feminism beyond welfare: care, socialisation and the politics of the state	2
No safe place: Black women, state violence and Black cultural production	2
All the rage – and other feelings: Young women, sexual harassment and media	2
Troubling transracialism: a transnational perspective	2
Countertopographies of copper: Martha Rosler, Chris Kraus and the Great Arizona Copper Strike of 1983–1986	2
Women's time and the cinema of Marleen Gorris	2
Who knows? On the epistemic status of experience in sugar-dating research	2
Beyond firsts, faith, family, and fidelity: living inside intergenerational feminist engagement	2
Dykes, witches, and cults: ‘women's studies’ in mass culture	2
Translating the feminist theory of intersectionality into gender analytical frameworks for gender and development	2
Love must imagine the world: Quantum mechanics in Barbie	2
Tracking the monstrous gendered precarity of neoliberalisation through novels and films of 1980s England and contemporary Ireland	1
Grief as feminist praxis: Love, loss and memory in resistance	1
Evelyn Nakano Glenn's ‘Racial Ethnic Women's Labor’ (1985)	1
Phantasms of a feminist ecology: interdisciplinarity across the generations	1
Conceptualizing misogyny as affect and emotion	1
Book Review Essay: Theorizing care activism across movements, sectors, and difference	1
Roundtable discussion: World-culture and social reproduction feminism	1
‘My debts haunt me like furies’: Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminism of her personal letters	1
Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction	1
Blowjobs with teeth: An alternative oral history of the sex wars	1
Non-hegemonic beauties: a critical approach to beauty in (trans)national contexts	1
Gender as discourse: Feminist knowledge production and anti-gender campaigns in Lithuania	1
Barbie Land as cyberfeminist utopia	1
Mediating menopause: Feminism, neoliberalism, and biomedicalisation	1
The fall of the family: reading family rejection in Frances Beal's ‘Double Jeopardy’	1
A feminist ethics of failure: rethinking negative affects and actions in research	1
Alongside desire: Object Lessons and Working-Class Studies	1
The feminist origins of ‘political correctness’: PC terms in JSTOR	1
Transfeminist pregnancy: reproductive speculation, genre, and desire	1
Coming of (r)age in Pakistan: The event and everyday life	1
Reclaiming beauty: non-heteronormative and racialised conversations on fatness and transness	1
Kenstituent power: an exploration of feminist constitutional change in Barbie	1
Managing expression and hand holding in The Good Wife : how ‘leaning in’ demands emotional labour	1
De-producing gender: the politics of sex, decertification and the figure of economy	1
The narrative and emotional structures of vulnerability: The case of commercial sex	1
‘In academia there is still, at least in Latin America, the hegemony of men’: Interviews with researchers and activists on the androcentric and neoliberal logic of contemporary academia	1
Interruption as a process of affective reckoning: A critical duoethnography on the continuum of violence	1
Feminist aesthetics: then and now – reflections on thirty-five years of inquiry in the US tradition	1
Not your mother's patriarchy? Reflections on the rise, fall, and unexpected return of a feminist keyword	1
Re-theorising namûs beyond ‘honour’: self-making, feminist agency and global epistemic justice	1

Object Lessons in a time of tolerable suboptimisation	1
How to defeat miscarriage stigma: from ‘breaking the silence’ to Reproductive Justice	1
Chinese women constructing and negotiating an ‘ideal’ beauty in Lisbon, or how women and aesthetical medical practitioners materialise ‘race’	1
We might be able to get by: A feminist discussion of the academy, community, and compensation across generations	1
Regulating reproduction, reproducing control: Feminist theory and the carceral continuum	1
Modulating rage; or, the trans joy fetish	1
Exploiting humiliation: politics as history in the ‘comfort women’ issue	1
‘You can stay if you want, as my bride wife’: mapping Barbie Land onto Bachelor Nation	1
Bound by blood: Sexism, speciesism and multispecies menstruation politics	1
The question of feminist critique	1
A roundtable on lesbian generations	1