| The modern girl around the world: Consumption, modernity, and globalization AE Weinbaum, LM Thomas, P Ramamurthy, UG Poiger, MY Dong, ... Duke University Press, 2008 | 672* | 2008 |
| Love in Africa J Cole, LM Thomas University of Chicago Press, 2019 | 636 | 2019 |
| Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya L Thomas Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (Berkeley, 2003), 2003 | 632* | 2003 |
| The modern girl and racial respectability in 1930s South Africa LM Thomas The Journal of African History 47 (3), 461-490, 2006 | 166 | 2006 |
| Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself): Lessons from colonial campaigns to ban excision in Meru, Kenya L Thomas Female “circumcision” in Africa: Culture, controversy, and change, 129-150, 2000 | 135 | 2000 |
| Historicising agency LM Thomas Gender & History 28 (2), 324-339, 2016 | 134 | 2016 |
| The modern girl around the world: A research agenda and preliminary findings Modern Girl Around the World Research Group, TE Barlow, M Yue Dong, ... Gender & History 17 (2), 245-294, 2005 | 119 | 2005 |
| Ngaitana (I Will Circumcise Myself)': the gender and generational politics of the 1956 ban on clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya LM Thomas Gender and History 8, 338-363, 1996 | 110 | 1996 |
| Modernity's Failings, Political Claims, and Intermediate Concepts LM Thomas The American Historical Review 116 (3), 727-740, 2011 | 78 | 2011 |
| Imperial concerns and ‘women's affairs’: State efforts to regulate clitoridectomy and eradicate abortion in Meru, Kenya, c. 1910–1950 LM Thomas The Journal of African History 39 (1), 121-145, 1998 | 64 | 1998 |
| Beneath the Surface: A Transnational History of Skin Lighteners LM Thomas | 53 | 2020 |
| Skin lighteners in South Africa: Transnational entanglements and technologies of the self LM Thomas Shades of difference: Why skin color matters, 188-210, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
| Skin lighteners, black consumers and Jewish entrepreneurs in South Africa LM Thomas History Workshop Journal 73 (1), 259-283, 2012 | 39 | 2012 |
| Schoolgirl pregnancies, letter-writing, and ‘modern’persons in late colonial East Africa LM Thomas Africa’s hidden histories: Everyday literacy and making the self, 180-207, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| Gendered reproduction: placing schoolgirl pregnancies in African history LM Thomas | 32 | 2007 |
| " The Politics of the Womb": Kenyan Debates over the Affiliation Act LM Thomas Africa Today, 151-176, 2000 | 24 | 2000 |
| The Moonstone JJ Thomas Coles Publishing, 1968 | 9 | 1968 |
| Consumer culture and ‘black is beautiful’in apartheid South Africa and early postcolonial Kenya LM Thomas African Studies 78 (1), 6-32, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Contestation, Construction, and Reconstruction: Public Debates over Marriage Law and Women's Status in Kenya, 1964-1979 LM Thomas | 7 | 1989 |
| Regulating reproduction: State interventions into fertility and sexuality in rural Kenya, c. 1920-1970 LM Thomas University of Michigan, 1997 | 6 | 1997 |
