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190 gap statements mined from Historical Gender and Feminism Studies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,314 papers on the topic — drawn mostly from each paper's own stated research gap, future-work, challenge and limitation notes, and its abstract. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one.

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  • How did they build communities and navigate or even resist the discrimination and oppression they faced by the state, church, and their fellow citizens? Additional research on churches, or more aptly, particular parishes’ or congregations’ views of gay, lesbian, and trans individuals could prove particularly illuminating.

    Gender History: A Necessary Key to Understanding Central Europe · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of comparative analysis of female leadership in the populist radical right.

    Strongwomen? Female Leaders in the Populist Radical Right in France and Italy · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper is limited by its focus on a specific historical context and geographical region. It may not be generalizable to other contexts or populations. The paper also acknowledges the limitations of its qualitative research approach, including the potential for bias and the reliance on self-reported data.

    GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft · 2026 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for further research on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and religion. The paper also identifies a gap in the consideration of intersectionality in policy and practice.

    GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper suggests that future research should focus on the development of new artworks and exhibitions that challenge traditional notions of femininity. The study highlights the importance of promoting diversity and inclusivity in the art world. The paper suggests that future research should engage with the concept of performativity and its relation to gender and sexuality.

    Le sexe féminin dans l’art contemporain : un organe en performance · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the existing literature on feminist art and theory, highlighting the need for a more nuanced understanding of femininity. The study finds that traditional notions of femininity have been dominant in art history, and that there is a need for a more diverse and inclusive representation of the female body.

    Le sexe féminin dans l’art contemporain : un organe en performance · 2026 · DOI

  • The study highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of the intersectional discrimination experienced by women with disabilities.

    Género, discapacidad y discriminación interseccional: barreras en la salud, trabajo y educación superior · 2026 · DOI

  • The standard explanations for the failure of the 1946 League for the Rights of Man have pointed to practical failures, but have not considered the role of a culture of abuse toward women. The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the failure of the League and the success of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

    The Rights of Man and Wrongs for Women in Postwar Britain: The Failure of Orwell, Koestler, and Russell’s 1946 League for the Rights of Man · 2026 · DOI

  • Initially popularized by Rosie the Riveter, the boiler suit symbolizes women’s feminist labor during WWII, however it remains understudied in feminist scholarship.

    Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated popular culture · 2025 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of the parallels between the actions of Catholic women in Mexico and Spain. The need for an analysis of the transmission of news and ideas across the Atlantic. The gap in knowledge about the role of Catholic identity in the efforts of women in both countries.

    One Cross, Two Continents: How Catholic Women’s Resistance in Mexico Inspired Their Spanish Counterparts (1926–1936) · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite Argentinian Alicia Moreau's significant writings on war, her international thought remains unknown in Latin America, and in the histories of international thought and IR.

    Alicia Moreau's socialist feminism on war: transcending western narratives? · 2024 · DOI

  • Future research should explore the intersectionality of racism, sexism, and classism and its impact on black women's lives. It should examine the ways in which black women can fight for black liberation and gender equality simultaneously.

    Black women’s quest for identity: A critical Study of Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun · 2023 · DOI

  • It highlights the need for more research on black women's experiences and their quest for identity.

    Black women’s quest for identity: A critical Study of Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun · 2023 · 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

  • It highlights the need to consider the gendered nature of the welfare state.

    The Scandinavian Welfare States- Towards Sexual Equality or a New Kind of Male Domination? · 1987 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the existing literature on the welfare state, which has disregarded the concept of gender. It argues that a feminist perspective is necessary to understand the Scandinavian welfare states.

    The Scandinavian Welfare States- Towards Sexual Equality or a New Kind of Male Domination? · 1987 · DOI

  • It highlights the need to re-examine the biological and cultural explanations for gender-based division of labor and inequality.

    The Shifting Paradigms of Primordial Unit of Social Reality and the Swerving Ideologies on Women’s Situation in Society: A Cognitive Analysis · 1987 · DOI

  • Distinct from a centralized, executive body, this Congress would then be limited by the “principal [sic] of the Referendum and qualified by that of the Popular Initiative.

    The Woman Question in the North American Branch of the International Workingmen’s Association, 1867–1876 · 2026 · DOI

  • The book provides a feminist perspective on the development of technology and art.

    Susanne Altmann, 2024: When Technology Was Female. Histories of Construction and Deconstruction, 1917–1989. Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance. 320 Seiten. 20,18 Euro · 2026 · DOI

  • His ‘Étude de la notion de souveraineté’ dated sovereignty’s dominance to the 17th century – as do most commentators, citing the 1648 Peace of Westphalia – but then traced its origins back farther to feudal hierarchies eventually overtaken by ‘the position of the monarch’, the sovereign who ‘depended on no one and whose power was not limited by anyone’.

    A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy · 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

  • 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

  • While all five feminists critiqued the French Empire, their criticisms varied widely, and their political ideologies spanned the spectrum from liberal monarchism, espoused by Audouard, to revolutionary anarchist socialism, promoted by Michel.

    Carolyn J. Eichner. Feminism’s Empire. · 2024 · DOI

  • The extension of the strongwomen concept to other countries. The examination of the gender performances and ideologies of male leaders in the populist radical right. The analysis of the impact of the strongwomen concept on the populist radical right's policies and ideologies.

    Strongwomen? Female Leaders in the Populist Radical Right in France and Italy · 2026 · DOI

  • The experiences of Melanesian women in the labour trade have been overlooked - The image of Melanesian women in the labour trade needs to be…

    THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN: A HISTORY OF MIGRANT LABOUR AND GENDER RELATIONS IN VANUATU · 1987 · DOI

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Open questions raised by papers listed on this page include: (1) The lack of comparative analysis of female leadership in the populist radical right (“Strongwomen? Female Leaders in the Populist Radical Right in France and Italy”, 2026); (2) The paper suggests that future research should focus on the development of new artworks and exhibitions that challenge traditional notions of femininity (“Le sexe féminin dans l’art contemporain : un organe en performance”, 2026); (3) Initially popularized by Rosie the Riveter, the boiler suit symbolizes women’s feminist labor during WWII, however it remains understudied in feminist scholarship (“Barbies in boiler suits: wartime fashion, feminist labor, and intermediated…”, 2025); (4) The lack of understanding of the parallels between the actions of Catholic women in Mexico and Spain (“One Cross, Two Continents: How Catholic Women’s Resistance in Mexico Inspired…”, 2025); (5) Despite Argentinian Alicia Moreau's significant writings on war, her international thought remains unknown in Latin America, and in the histories of international thought and IR (“Alicia Moreau's socialist feminism on war: transcending western narratives?”, 2024). 190 gap statements have been mined from Historical Gender and Feminism Studies papers in our 7.9M-paper local library, which holds 4,314 papers on the topic; the gaps come from whichever of those papers state one. They are mostly the research gaps the authors state and the papers' abstracts, plus future-work, limitations and challenges passages. The ones listed below are a selection still marked open; each names the study that raised it, with a DOI link where the paper has one, so you can read the original claim in context.

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