| Women’s activism in Saudi Arabia: Male guardianship and sexual violence L Tønnessen CMI Report, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Exploring the relationship between democratization and quota policies in Africa RL Muriaas, L Tønnessen, V Wang Women's Studies International Forum 41, 89-93, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
| The women's quota in conflict ridden Sudan: Ideological battles for and against gender equality L Tønnessen, S Al-Nagar Women's Studies International Forum 41, 122-131, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| When rape becomes politics: Negotiating Islamic law reform in Sudan L Tønnessen Women's Studies International Forum 44, 145-153, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam L Tønnessen Religion & Human Rights 6 (1), 25-39, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Women at work in Sudan: Marital privilege or constitutional right? L Tønnessen Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 26 (2 …, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| The Limits of the Law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa I Maffi, L Tønnessen Health and Human Rights 21 (2), 1, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| Islamic Feminism L Tønnessen S. l.]: CHR Michelsen Institute, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| Is Islam a threshold for escape or an Insurmountable barrier? Women bargaining with patriarchy in Post-Islamist Sudan L Tønnessen Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 30 (3), 583-594, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| Enemies of the state: Curbing women activists advocating rape reform in Sudan L Tønnessen Journal of International Women's Studies, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Between Sharia and CEDAW in Sudan: Islamist women negotiating gender equity L Tønnessen Gender Justice and Legal Pluralities, 145-167, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Beyond numbers? Women’s 25% parliamentary quota in post-conflict Sudan L Tønnessen Studies 56, 725-736, 2008 | 12 | 2008 |
| Women’s rights and the women’s movement in Sudan (1952–2014) S al-Nagar, L Tønnessen B. Badri and AM Tripp, Women’s activism in Africa, 121-156, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| The many faces of political Islam in Sudan: Muslim women's activism for and against the state L Tønnessen Bergen: University of Bergen, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Family law reform in Sudan: competing claims for gender justice between sharia and women’s human rights SE Nagar, L Tønnessen CMI Report, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| Ansar al-Sunna and Women's Agency in Sudan: A Salafi Approach to Empowerment through Gender Segregation L Tønnessen Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 37 (3), 92-124, 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| Counter-mobilization against child marriage reform in Africa RL Muriaas, L Tønnessen, V Wang Political Studies 66 (4), 851-868, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Family law reform in Sudan: A never ending story? S al-Nagar, L Tønnessen CMI Brief 2018 (08), 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Islamic Feminism, a public lecture L Tønnessen CMI Sudan Working Paper, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Girls, Child Marriage, and Education in Red Sea State, Sudan: Perspectives on Girls’ Freedom to Choose SE Nagar, S Bamkar, L Tønnessen Sudan Report, 2017 | 7 | 2017 |
