For pulp studies, I would say that the bulk of feminist scholarship concentrates on the literary side - being focused on genre fiction that started in or came out of pulp: science fiction and fantasy (which have a number of prominent female writers, and gender/sex issues out the wazoo), lesbian pulp novels, the men's magazines in the '50s which were direct counters to early feminism, that kind of thing. So if you want an essay (or book) on a feminist analysis of early science fiction, you've got a fair pick.

There are relatively few feminist looks at the treatment and portrayal of women and female authors, artists, editors, and fans in pulp fiction. I personally would love a feminist history of the pulp era (specifically the 1910s-1940s), because I think there's a lot of meat there for discussion and possibly turn around a few preconceptions, but I don't think one has been written yet - most of the focus in that area is on the later pulp novel period, rather than pulp magazines.

For history generally- studying 51% of the population that was almost completely ignored until the 1970s. For empire history, the influence of gender theory is quite strong, particularity looking at political, economic, and social structures as gendered. For example, one of the ways in which the British legitimised rule in Bengal was to construct themselves as "masculine saviours" of Bengali women, and criticise Bengali men for being "effeminate," and because these men were "effeminate" they were deemed unfit to govern themselves.This also played out in their division between the Hindu and Muslim cultures where they characterised Muslims as being almost hyper-masculine and war like.