Myra Marx Ferree
Director, Center for German and European Studies
7103 Sewell Social Sciences
(608) 263-5204
mferree@ssc.wisc.edu
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Office Hours: W 8:30-10:30 and by appt (Fall'09)
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Publications:
Jessica Brown and Myra Marx Ferree forthcoming, 2004 "Close your eyes and think of England: Pronatalism in British Newspapers" Gender & Society
Ferree, Myra Marx and Carol McClurg Mueller. 2004 "Feminism and the Womens Movement: A Global Perspective." The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements.
Ferree, Myra Marx, William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht. 2002. Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States Cambridge University Press. (best book award, 2004, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section).
Valerie Sperling, MMF and Barbara J. Risman. 2001 "Constructing Global Feminism: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Russian Womens Activism." Signs, 26(4): 1155-1186.
Areas of Interest:
Class Analysis and Historical Change
Comparative/Historical Sociology
Methods and Statistics
Political Sociology
Social Movements and Collective Action
Social Psychology and Microsociology
Social Stratification
Sociology of Culture
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of the Family
Affiliations:
Center for German and European Studies
European Union Center of Excellence
Gender Program
International Institute
Sociology
Women's Studies
Women's Studies Research Center
Research Interest Statement:
Myra Marx Ferree is the Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. Her recent books include Global Feminisms: Transnational Women’s Organizing, Activism, and Human Rights (co-edited with Aili Mari Tripp, NYU Press, 2006) and Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the US (with William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht, Cambridge University Press, 2002). In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the Maria-Jahoda Visiting Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. She has written numerous articles about feminist organizations and politics in the US, Germany and internationally, as well as about gender inequality in families, the inclusion of gender in sociological theory and practice, and the intersections of gender with race and class. She has been the recipient of the Jessie Bernard Award (sociology’s highest honor for work in gender), vice-president of the American Sociological Association and deputy editor of its leading journal, president of Sociologists for Women in Society and recipient of its mentoring and feminist scholarship awards. Her current work focuses on comparisons between US and German feminist movements and gender policy developments since the 1960s as well as the development of feminist identities in transnational women’s organizations.