note: km= Katzenstein and Mueller.
- km-int Katzenstein. “Comparing the Feminist Movements of the United States and Western Europe: An Overview.” broad-ranging. consciousness, political alliances, nature of state. comparative overview. Useful.
- Joyce Gelb. 1990. “Feminism and Political Action.” In Russell J. Dalton and Manfred Kuechler, eds., Challenging the Political Order, pages 137-155. Compare US, Britain, Sweden in how women’s movt functions, relative to polity and culture. Useful.
- Myra Marx Ferree. “Political Strategies and Feminist Concerns in the Untied States and Federal Republic of Germany: Class, Race and Gender.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 13: 221-240. 1991. US feminism guided by race analogy, while Germany feminism by the conflict between gender and class politics. Discourses around employment policy, reproductive rights, and women in military vary; political culture important.
- km-8. Myra Ferree. “Equality and Autonomy: Feminist Politics in the United States and West Germany.” difference in type, each is strong in ways, weak in ways. US liberal, Germany radical.
- km-11. Mary Ruggie. “Workers’ Movements and Women’s Interests: The Impact of Labor-State Relations in Britain and Sweden.” Feminists are marginalized in British labour politics, central in Swedish. Causes and consequences.
- km-5. Judith Hellman. “Women’s Struggle in a Worker’s City: Feminist Movements in Turin.” The whole book is better but out of print; useful case in which union women were central and autonomous feminists had no base.
- km-6. Stephen Hellman. “Feminism and the Model of Militancy in an Italian Communist Federation: Challenges to the Old Style of Politics.” Gender politics in the party, the work/home nexis where work is the party.
- km-7. Karen Beckwith. “Response to Feminism in the Italian Parliament: Divorce, Abortion, and Sexual Violence Legislation.” feminism and party politics intertwine. interesting.
- km-3. Jane Jenson. “Changing Discourse, Changing Agendas: Political Rights and Reproductive Policies in France.” Talk about alliances, content of debates for 3 issues (inter-war suffrage, inter-war birth control, 1970s abortion). no explicit research methodology but lots of talk about whose ideas were connect to whose, and distinctions, subdivisions. useful.
- Understanding US Politics Anne Costain and W. Douglas Costain. “Strategy and Tactics of the Women’s Movement in the United States: The Role of Political Parties.” km-9. process of routinization and institutionalization. GOOD.
- Jo Freeman. “Whom You Know versus Whom You Represent” km-10. History of US women’s movement and its relation to parties across time. Title refers to post-1960 differences between Reps and Dems. Very useful if you want to understand the US (including movements other than women’s).
- km-4. Carol Mueller. “Collective Consciousness, Identity Transformation, and the Rise of Women in Public Office in the United States.” Links constructionist theories of consciousness to electoral politics, both attitudes of women in office and of voters.