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An intersectional analysis of Syrian women's employment: Examining the experience of being an educated yet unemployed refugee in Türkiye 叙利亚妇女就业的交叉分析：审视<s:1>基耶省受过教育但失业的难民的经历

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103294

Ceren Avcil

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Are pads the priority? Contested framings of the Brazilian National Policy on menstrual health and dignity 垫子是优先考虑的吗？关于月经健康和尊严的巴西国家政策的框架存在争议

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103298

Isabela Hümmelgen , Inga T. Winkler

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The empowerment of rural Chinese women through E-commerce entrepreneurship 通过电子商务创业增强中国农村妇女的权能

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103276

Liu Liu , Zhuqin Feng , Haiyan Zhou , Changzhi Liu , Zhenni Tang

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Gendered survival under genocidal violence: A decolonial feminist narrative study of women and displaced families in Gaza 种族灭绝暴力下的性别生存：加沙妇女和流离失所家庭的非殖民化女权主义叙事研究

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103301

Guido Veronese , Bilal Hamamra , Fayez Mahamid , Federica Cavazzoni

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The performance of masculinities in the 2025 presidential elections in Romania 2025年罗马尼亚总统选举中男性的表现

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103291

Oana Băluță , Ov Cristian Norocel

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Woman in the mirror: Kurdish women's century long search for recognition in Ata Nahai's novels 镜子里的女人：库尔德女性在阿塔·纳海小说中寻求认同的百年历程

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103296

Zakarya Bezdoode

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Draupadi as the ‘Other’: A feminist reading through Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex 作为“他者”的德拉帕迪：西蒙娜·德·波伏娃《第二性》的女权主义解读

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103295

Kajal Verma, Dr Rupinder Kaur

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Transgressing “docile bodies”: Women's poetry in Bangla little magazines, 1950s–1970s 越界的“温顺的身体”：1950 - 1970年代孟加拉小杂志中的女性诗歌

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-05-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2026.103279

Ayan Choudhury , Seemita Mohanty , Akshaya K. Rath

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Barriers and facilitators to refugee women's employment and the views of employers and refugee women on workplace inclusion 难民妇女就业的障碍和促进因素以及雇主和难民妇女对工作场所包容的看法

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103272

Gülşah Selin Tümkaya

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Building on the ruins of the revolution: tracing feminist knowledge from the 1979 revolution in Iran 建立在革命的废墟上：追溯1979年伊朗革命以来的女权主义知识

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Womens Studies International Forum Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103250

Samaneh Moazzam , Susan Bastani

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