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Open research questions in Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

29 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 4,038 Historical Gender and Feminism Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • While gender inequality remains to be a phenomenon that impacts women globally, the different challenges women are facing in the Mediterranean region where cultural values of honor function as barrier to women's emancipation beyond the patriarchal structure is often overlooked in the academic literature.

    Honor in the Meditteranean: A Comparative Narrative Analysis of Malena (2000) and Mine (1982) · 2024 · DOI

  • In fact this emphasises different forms of subjectivity on the basis of complex and multilayered power relations rather than being limited to a movement of critical opposition to the subject's false universality (150).

    Rosi Braidotti, Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), ISBN: 978-0-231-15389-8 · 2014 · DOI

  • Katie Sutton's study, which grew out of her doctoral dissertation, explores the portrayal of one of the under-researched types of the New Woman, the masculine woman, in Berlin-based mainstream print media, six sub-cultural magazines aimed at homosexual women, and selected films and literary texts, in order to reveal the diversity and complexity of female masculinities in the Weimar Republic.

    The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany · 2011 · DOI

  • An intriguing, if little known, autobiography, Femme d'Afrique by Aoua Keita (1975), is a valuable social document which allows us to reconstruct women's response to the independence movement in the French Soudan (now Mali).

    Aoua Keita and the Nascent Women's Movement in the French Soudan · 1993 · DOI

  • It addresses a substantial gap in the literature concerning the insufficiently examined and asymmetrical representation of women in early psychological theories of religion.

    The Perception of Women in Early Psychology of Religion: A Study in the Context of the Disciplinary Developments of Psychology of Women and Psychology of Religion · 2025 · DOI

  • Finally, it discusses the reflection on the combination of aromantic asexual and feminism and concludes that the combination of aromantic asexual and feminism is insufficient in resisting the path of “sexual hegemony.

    Research on the Development Path of Feminism from an Aromantic Asexual Perspective · 2024 · DOI

  • Some scholars have highlighted the hegemonic masculinities that underpinned Brexit campaigns, but the role of gender in the construction of national identity in Europe has not been analysed in-depth.

    Anglo-British exceptionalism and the European “Other”: white masculinities in discourses of British national identity · 2023 · DOI

  • While the meaning of the garter for mother and for child can only ever remain unknown to the historian, its existence and survival throughout the centuries evokes the physical and emotional labor that came with having children in Old Regime France.

    Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789 · 2022 · DOI

  • Kristeva’s psychoanalytical approach is also applicable for the further research on the behaviors of certain other characters in The Grass is Singing .

    Race, Gender, and the Dilemma in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing · 2019

  • While scholarship on gender and labor has underscored how masculinity is constructed and performed in the workplace, recent studies have not fully explored the imperial contexts in which many of these negotiations have taken place.

    Trouble on the Docks · 2016 · DOI

  • A special focus will be laid on the question of how women in Luxembourgian society were constructed as female ‘citizens’, even though they were, rather, considered as a homogeneous category limited to a private sphere separated from the male citizens.

    The construction of ‘female citizens’: a socio-historical analysis of girls’ education in Luxembourg · 2014 · DOI

  • This article traces a genealogy of intersexuality’s underrecognized but historically pivotal role in the development of gender as a concept in twentieth-century American biomedicine, feminism, and their globalizing circuits.

    “An Unnamed Blank That Craved a Name”: A Genealogy of Intersex as Gender · 2012 · DOI

  • A lack of consensus on this issue has informed the debate regarding women's subjective class identification as well as that regarding their objective class location.

    In Families or as Individuals? Theoretical and Methodological Problems in the Incorporation of Women in Class Analysis · 2008 · DOI

  • Despite the fact that both interfaith relations and women's history are now well established subdisciplines within the field of medieval studies, the question of how medieval women themselves established cross-sectarian relations has rarely been explored.

    Conversing with the minority: relations among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim women in the high middle ages · 2008 · DOI

  • 6 Urry (Citation2000) has argued that the respective and uneven reach of networks and flows needs to be investigated.

    ‘Falling women’–‘saving angels’: spaces of contested mobility and the production of gender and sexualities within early twentieth-century train stations · 2007 · DOI

  • Asking about the future of Jewish feminism and Jewish feminist scholarship will, I feel sure, drive us into the past: We will talk about where we have been, how far we have come, what we feel remains to be done.

    <i>The View From Here</i>: Reflections on the Future of Jewish Feminism and Jewish Feminist Scholarship · 2005 · DOI

  • As often as journalists, suffragists, and members of Parliament debated enfranchisement in the years before and after the First World War, very little is known today about the role Catholics played in the struggle for women's rights.

    Catholics and the Campaign for Women's Suffrage in England · 2004 · DOI

  • This article reassesses the little known work of Margaret Papandreou, the American-born widow of Andreas Papandreou, in the context of the post-junta Greek women's movement.

    Margarita Papandreou: Bearing Gifts to the Greeks? · 2003 · DOI

  • For example, we need further work on the sexual division in education and instruction, as a way of understanding how women's access to philosophy and other public discourses was framed as a break from the feminine condition.

    Ideology and Culture: Towards Feminist Cultural History · 1991

  • Thus there was scarcely any progress. This is scarcely surprising, given the characteristics of developments in the fields of university studies and women at work in each country.

    Women and Access to University in France and Germany (1861‐1967) · 1973 · DOI

  • The explosion of literature on female libera- tion, most of it highly partisan, has been so abrupt and voluminous we are still lacking any proper bibliographic tools.

    WOMEN IN GEOGRAPHY: A BRIEF FACTUAL ACCOUNT · 1973 · DOI

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