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MYRA MARX FERREE
7103 Social Sciences Building
1180 Observatory Dr.
University of Wisconsin
Madison WI 53706
608-265-5389 (fax)
608-263-5204 (voice)
17 Sauk Creek Circle
Madison WI 53717
608-824-9705
e-mail: [email protected]
Education
1976
1971
1969-70
Ph.D., Harvard University, in the Social Psychology Program of the Department of Psychology
and Social Relations
A.B., Bryn Mawr College, Magna cum laude, in the Department of Political Science
University of Hamburg, W. Germany, in Modern European History
Employment
2011Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2006-11 Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology
2004-08, 2009-11
Director, Center for German and European Studies
2002-03, 2011Director, European Union Center, University of Wisconsin
2001Joint governance appointment with Women’s Studies
2000Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1991-00 Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Connecticut
1987-91 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
1985-87 Director, Women’s Studies Program, University of Connecticut
1976-87 Assistant & Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs
1976
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Tufts University
1975-76 Senior Research Associate, Laboratory for Psychosocial Studies, Boston College
1973-74 Consultant, Personnel Office, Harvard University
1969
Executive Intern, Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.
Visiting Positions
2010
Guest faculty, Intersectionality Seminar, Central European University, Budapest, July
2005
Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Jan-June
2004
Marie Jahoda Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, May-July
1993
Visiting Professor, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, May
1985
Guest Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, West Germany, April-July
Grants and Fellowships
2011-12
2010-13
2010-13
2008-09
2007-09
Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar (co-PI with Aili Tripp and Christina Ewig)
International Institute and Global Studies Program, Research Circle on International Women’s
Policy and Feminist Activism
Alexander von Humboldt TransCoop collaborative research award (co-PI with Kathrin Zippel
and Susanne Baer)
DAAD Professorship in German and European Studies, German Academic Exchange Service
Atlantis Program, European Union and FIPSE, co-ordinate grants (joint with Northeastern
University, Radboud University (Nijmegen, NL) and Complutense University (Madrid)
“Transnational Applied Research in Gender Equity Training (TARGET)”
2007-09
2004-05
1996-97
1993-96
1990-91
1990-92
1988-90
1982-83
1982-83
1982-83
1981
1978-79
1977
1974-75
1974-75
1974-75
1971-72
International Institute and Global Studies Program, TARGET: a Research Circle on Global
Gender Equity (co-PI with Christina Ewig, Political Science).
Berlin Prize Fellowship, The American Academy in Berlin “The Struggle for Sisterhood”
National Council for Soviet and East European Research Grant (co-ordinate with Barbara
Risman) “The Russian Women’s Movement: Local and Global Influences”
NSF Grant (coordinate with William A. Gamson), “Social Movements and Public Discourse:
The Abortion Debate in Germany and the US”
German Marshall Fund Fellowship, “Equality and Autonomy: Political Strategies and
Feminist Concerns in Germany”
Problems in the Discipline, ASA/NSF Conference Grant, “Feminist Organizations: Harvest of
the Women’s Movement” (with Patricia Yancey Martin)
NSF Grant, “Perceived Equity in the Household Division of Labor.”
Woodrow Wilson Faculty Development Grant
German Academic Exchange Service Research Fellowship
University of Connecticut Sabbatical Research Grant
Federation of Professional Women’s Organizations Travel Award
Dept. of Labor Grant, “Causal Models of Women’s Employment Attitudes.”
University of Connecticut Faculty Summer Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies
Peter B. Livingston Research Fellowship, Harvard University
National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship
National Science Foundation Training Grant, Harvard University
Awards
2011
2009
2004
2001
1997
1995
1992
1988
1987
With Hae Yeon Choo, Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article, ASA Race,
Class and Gender Section
Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship for an Article, ASA Race, Class and Gender Section
Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association
Robin Williams Distinguished Lecturer, Eastern Sociological Society
Mentoring Award, Sociologists for Women in Society
Excellence in Equity Award, AAUW, Connecticut Chapter
Cheryl Miller Feminist Lecturer, Sociologists for Women and Society
Distinguished Lecturer, National Council on Family Relations
Outstanding Woman in Education (Connecticut) UN/USA Association
Editorial Positions
20112006-11
2003-06
2001-07
2001-04
2000-03
1999-01
1994-01
19921990-95
1988-92
1987-88
Editorial Board, Journal of Women’s History
Editorial Board, Sociological Theory
Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review
International Board, Journal of Sociology
Editorial Board, Women in German Yearbook
Editorial Board, Contexts
Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology
Editorial Board, Public Opinion Quarterly
Series Editor, Perspectives on Gender, Routledge
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Consulting Editor, Perspectives on Gender Monograph Series, Unwin Hyman
Women’s Studies/Social Science Advisor, Books for College Libraries
(Choice compendium of recommended books)
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1986-90
1985-88
1980-83
Editorial Board, Gender & Society
Editorial Board, The Sociological Quarterly
Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology
Professional Associations
2009-11
2000-02
2000
1999
1997-00
1996
1990-93
1991-92
1988-89
1988
1987
1987-90
1986-88
1985-86
1984-86
1984
1977-79
(* indicates elective office)
Program Committee for the 2010 and 2011 ASA Annual Meetings
*President-elect and President, Sociologists for Women in Society
Chair, ASA Taskforce on Committee on Committees/Committee on Nominations
Co-chair, Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
*Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society
*Vice-President, American Sociological Association
*Council, American Sociological Association
(Council liaison to Committee on Teaching, Minority Fellowship Committee)
*Chair, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, ASA
Co-chair, Program Committee, Eastern Sociological Society
Chair, Dissertation Paper Award Committee, Sex and Gender Section, ASA
Candace Rogers Award Selection Committee, Eastern Sociological Society
*Council, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, ASA
*Committee on Nominations, American Sociological Association
*Chair, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association
*Committee on Committees, American Sociological Association
Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Committee on Women, Eastern Sociological Society (Chair, 1978-79)
Other Professional Service
2009
NSF Reverse Site Visit Reviewer, National Center for Women in Information Technology
2008-10 National Review Panel for social science proposals, ACLS Faculty Fellowships
2005-09 Selection Committee, Berlin Program Graduate Fellowships, SSRC & Free University Berlin
2005-08, 2010 Selection Committee, EMGIP Awards, German Academic Exchange Service
2002
Advisory Committee, Democracy & Society Program, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
2001-04 Advisory Board, Political Research Associates, Campus Activism Project
1996
Final Selection Panel, Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies
1994
Review Panel, Instrumentation Awards, Social, Behavioral and Economic Research
Division, National Science Foundation
1993-96 Advisory Board, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
1991-93 Selection Panel, Fulbright Scholarships to Germany, Institute of International Education, NY
1989-91 Sociology Review Panel, National Science Foundation
1987-90 Research Council (Grant research awards and set policy university-wide), University of
Connecticut Research Foundation
1984-86 Social Sciences Review Panel, Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies, Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Publications
Books
Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Context, Stanford University Press, 2012.
Global Feminism: Women’s Transnational Activism, Organizations and Human Rights (edited with Aili
Mari Tripp), New York University Press, 2006.
Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States. (with
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William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht), Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Best Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements section, American Sociological
Association, August 2004
 Mattei Dogan Award for Comparative Research, Society for Comparative Research, 2002
 Honorable mention, Mirra Komarovsky Distinguished Book Award, Eastern Sociological Society
2003)
Revisioning Gender: New Directions in the Social Sciences. (edited, with Beth B. Hess and Judith
Lorber). Sage Publications. 1998.
Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women’s Movement. (edited, with Patricia Yancey Martin).
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement. (with Beth B. Hess). Boston: G.K. Hall/
Twayne/ Routledge. 1985/ 1994/ 2000.
 Selected as Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1985
 Portions reprinted in Laura Kramer, The Sociology of Gender: A Text-Reader. St. Martin’s
Press,1990
 Second, expanded and fully revised edition, 1994
 Third edition, expanded and revised, Routledge, 2000
Analyzing Gender: A Handbook for the Social Sciences. (edited, with Beth B. Hess). Beverly Hills: Sage
Publications, 1987.
Healing Technology: Feminist Perspectives. (Team-edited, with Kathryn S. Ratcliff as lead editor) Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1989.
Women, Work and Technology: Transformations. (Team-edited, with Barbara Wright as lead editor).
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987.
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Refereed Articles
“Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families” Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010, 72 (June,
Decade in Review issue): 420-439.
“Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions and
Institutions in the Study of Inequalities.” (Hae Yeon Choo and MMF), Sociological Theory,
2010, 28 (2): 29-49.
 2011 Distinguished contribution to scholarship article award, Section on Race, Class and Gender,
American Sociological Association
“Gender politics in the Berlin Republic: Issues of Identity and Institutional Change” German Politics &
Society, 2010, 28 (1): 189-214.
“From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism, and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens”
(Sarah Bruch, MMF and Joe Soss), American Sociological Review, 2010, 75 (2): 205-226.
“Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Anti-discrimination
Laws” (Susan B. Rottmann and MMF), Social Politics, 2008, 15(4): 481-513.
“Cowboy of the World? Gendered Discourse in the Iraq War Debate” (Wendy M. Christensen and
MMF), Qualitative Sociology, 2008, 31(3): 287-306.
“Angela Merkel: What Does it Mean to Run as a Woman?” (special issue on Bundestag 2005 elections)
German Politics & Society, 2006, 24(1): 93-107.
“Close Your Eyes and Think of England: Pronatalism in the British Print Media” (Jessica Autumn Brown
and MMF), Gender & Society, 2005, 19(1): 5-24.
“Global Activism in Virtual Space: The European Women’s Lobby in the Network of Transnational
Women’s NGOs on the Web” (MMF and Tetyana Pudrovska), Social Politics, 2004, 11(1): 117143.
 Reprinted in Roberto Franzosi (ed), 2007. Content Analysis (SAGE Publications, London) in
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series “Benchmarks in Social Research Methods”)
“Resonance and Radicalism: Feminist Abortion Discourses in Germany and the United States.” American
Journal of Sociology, 2003, 109 (2): 304-344.
“Four Models of the Public Sphere in Modern Democracies” (MMF, William A. Gamson, Jürgen
Gerhards and Dieter Rucht). Theory & Society, 2002, 31(3):289-324.
“Abortion Talk in Germany and in the United States: Why Rights Explanations Are Wrong” (MMF,
William A. Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht). Contexts. 2002 2(1): 27-33.
“Constructing Global Feminism: Transnational Advocacy Networks and Russian Women’s Activism”
(Valerie Sperling, MMF and Barbara J. Risman), Signs, 2001, 26 (4): 1155-1186.
“Meaning and Measurement: Reconceptualizing Measures of the Division of Household Labor” (Joan
Twiggs, Julia McQuillan and MMF), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1999, 61: 712-724.
“The Russian Women’s Movement: Activists’ Strategies and Identities.” (MMF, Barbara Risman, Valerie
Sperling, Tatyana Gurikova and Katherine Hyde), Women & Politics, 1999, 20(3): 83-109.
“Gender, Class and the Interaction among Social Movements: A Strike of West Berlin Daycare Workers.”
(MMF and Silke Roth), Gender & Society, 1998, 12 (6): 626-648.
 Revised version published with Silke Roth as “Klasse, Geschlecht und die Interaktion von
sozialen Bewegungen: Ein- und Ausgrenzungsdynamiken” in Berlin Debatte Initial, 2001, 12(2):
79-92.
“Marital Satisfaction among Two-Earner Couples: Gender and Fairness.” (with Jane Wilkie, Kathryn
S.Ratcliff and MMF), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998, 60: 577-594.
“Kollektive Identität und Organizationskulturen: Theorien neuer sozialer Bewegungen aus
amerikanischer Perspektive.” (“Collective Identity and Organizational Culture: An American
Perspective on the New Social Movements”) (Silke Roth and MMF) Forschungsjournal Neue
Soziale Bewegungen. 1998. 11(1):80-91.
 Reprinted in Neue Soziale Bewegungen - Impulse, Bilanzen und Perspektiven, Ansgar Klein and
Markus Rohde, editors. Westdeutschen Verlag, 1998.
“Gender-based Pay Gaps: Methodological and Policy Issues in University Salary Studies” (MMF and
Julia McQuillan), Gender & Society, 1998, 12(1): 7-39.
“Rethinking Stratification from a Feminist Perspective: Gender, Race and Class in Mainstream
Textbooks” (MMF and Elaine J. Hall), American Sociological Review, 1996, 61 (6): 1-22.
 Partially reprinted in Doing Social Research, Theresa Baker, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1999)
“Patriarchies and Feminisms: The Two Women’s Movements of Unified Germany.” Social Politics,
1995, 2(1): 10-24.
 A revised, expanded version also appears in Crossing Borders, 1997, edited by Barbara Hobson
and Anne Marie Berggson, Stockholm: Swedish Research Coordination and Planning Council.
Reprint, 1999, London: Macmillan.
“‘The Time of Chaos was the Best’: The Mobilization and Demobilization of the Women’s Movement in
East Germany,” Gender & Society, 1994, 8(4): 597-623.
“Three Steps Back for Women: Gender, German Unification and University ‘Reform’” (MMF and
Brigitte Young), PS: Political Science and Politics, 1993, 26 (2): 199-205.
“The Rise and Fall of ‘Mommy Politics’: Feminism and German Unification.” Feminist Studies, 1993, 19
(1): 89-115.
 A shorter version published as “Aufstieg und Untergang der ‘Muttipolitik’” Diskurs, January,
1992: 60-65.
 Also published in French translation, “Grandeur et décadance de la ‘politique des mamans’:
féminisme et réunification en Allemagne de l’Est” in Nouvelles Questions Féministes,
1997,17(4): 9-43.
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 Reprinted in Women, Culture and Society, Kendall-Hunt, 1998.
“Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Feminist Politics and Equality Offices.” German Politics & Society,
Issue 24 & 25, Winter 1991-2: 53-66.
“The Gender Division of Labor in Two-Earner Marriages: Dimensions of Variability and Change.”
Journal of Family Issues, 1991, 12 (2): 158-180.
“Visual Images of American Society: Gender and Race as Depicted in Introductory Sociology
Textbooks.” (MMF and Elaine J. Hall), Gender & Society, 1990, 4 (4): 500-533.
“Beyond Separate Spheres: Feminism and Family Research.” Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1990,
52 (4): 866-884.
 Reprinted in Feminist Frontiers III. Laurel Richardson and Verta Taylor, eds. McGraw_Hill,
1992.
 Reprinted in The Work & Family Interface: Toward a Contextual Effects Perspective. Gary
Bowen and Joe Pittman, eds. National Council on Family Relations, 1995.
“Race Differences in Abortion Attitudes” (Elaine Hall and MMF), Public Opinion Quarterly, 1986, 50
(2): 193-207.
“Between Two Worlds: West German Research on Working Class Women and Work.” Signs: A Journal
of Women in Culture and Society, 1985, 10 (3): 517-536.
 Reprinted in Feminist Research Methods, Joyce Nielson, ed., Westview Press, 1990.
“Mobilization and Meaning: Some Social Psychological Contributions to the Resource Mobilization
Perspective on Social Movements” (MMF and F.D. Miller), Sociological Inquiry, 1985, 55 (1): 3861.
 Reprinted in Social Movements: Critical Concepts, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James Jaspers,
Routledge, 2007.
“The View from Below: Women’s Employment and Gender Equality in Working Class Families”
Marriage and Family Review, 1984, 7(3/4): 57-75.
“Class, Housework, and Happiness” Sex Roles, 1984, 11 (11/12): 1057-1074.
“The Women’s Movement in the Working Class” Sex Roles 1983; (Spring):9(4):493-505.
“Working Class Feminism: a Consideration of the Consequences of Employment.” The Sociological
Quarterly, 1980, 21(2): 173-184.
“Employment Without Liberation: Cuban Women in the U.S.” Social Science Quarterly, 1979, 60
(1):35-50.
 Reprinted in Latinos and the Law, Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, editor, Garland, 1995.
“A Cognitive Approach to Social and Individual Stigma.” Journal of Social Psychology, 1979, 109:8797. (Eliot R. Smith and MMF )
“Predicting Perceptions of Victimization” (with F.D. Miller, E. R. Smith and S.E. Taylor), Journal of
Applied Social Psychology, 1976, 6(4):352-259.
“Working-Class Jobs: Paid Work and Housework as Sources of Satisfaction.” Social Problems, 1976,
23(4):431-441.
“A Short Scale of Attitudes toward Feminism” (F.D. Miller, E. R. Smith and MMF), Representative
Research in Social Psychology, 1975, 6(1):51-56.
 Scale data reprinted in Carole Beere, ed., Gender Roles: A Handbook of Tests and Measures,
Greenwood Press, 1990.)
“A Woman for President? Changing Responses, 1958-1972.” Public Opinion Quarterly, 1974, 38(3):390399.
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Other Journal Publications
“Feminist Practice Meets Feminist Theory: Symposium on Linda Zerilli’s Feminism and the Abyss of
Freedom.” Sociological Theory, 2009, 27(1): 75-80.
“Practice Makes Perfect? A Comment on Yancey Martin’s ‘Gendering Practices, Practicing Gender’”
Gender & Society, 2003, 17(3): 373-378.
“The Ironies of Power” Gender & Society, 2001, 15 (5): 649-653.
“Editorial: Geschlechtsblinder Diskurs: Geschlechterverhältnisse und Frauenbewegungen in
internationaler Perspektive.”[A discourse without gender: Gender relations and women’s
movements in international perspective] (with Silke Roth) Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale
Bewegungen, 2001, 14 (2): 4-12.
“Hot Movements, Cold Cognition: Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames” (with David
Merrill), (Millennium special issue) Contemporary Sociology, 2000, 29(3):454-462.
 Revised, expanded version pp. 247-261 in James Jasper and Jeffrey Goodwin, Rethinking Social
Movements: Structure, Meaning, Emotion. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
“Gender Stratification and Paradigm Change: A reply to Manza and VanSchyndel.” (with Elaine J. Hall).
American Sociological Review, 2000, 65(3): 475-481.
“Equality and Cumulative Disadvantage: A Comment on Baxter and Wright” (with Bandana
Purkayastha), Gender & Society, 2000, 14(6): 809-813.
“Sociological Perspectives on Gender in Germany.” Women in German Yearbook 12, Patricia
Herminghouse and Sara Friedrichsmeyer, eds., University of Nebraska Press, 1996, 27-38.
“Making Gender Visible: A Comment on Coleman’s ‘Rational Reconstruction of Society’” (with Barbara
Risman), American Sociological Review, 1995, 60(5): 775-781.
“After the Wall: Explaining the Status of Women in the Former GDR.” Sociological Focus, 1995, 28(1):
9-22. (invited keynote address to North Central Sociological Association)
Book Chapters
“Sexual Citizenship and Suffering Subjects: Media Discourse about Teenage Homosexuality in South
Korea” (Hae Yeon Choo and MMF), in Celine-Marie Pascale (ed), Inequality and the Politics of
Representation: A Global Landscape, Sage. (forthcoming)
“Feminist Organizing: What’s old, what’s new? History, Trends and Issues” (Christina Ewig and MMF).
In Laurel Weldon (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics. (forthcoming)
“Feminist Encounters: Germany, the EU and Beyond” in Konrad Jarausch (ed), Twenty Years after
German Unification. (forthcoming)
“The discursive politics of feminist intersectionality” in Helma Lutz et al. Intersectional Analysis.
Frankfurt a/M, 2009.
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Translated into Chinese, reprinted in Gender Equality and Social Transformation in a Global
Context. Social Sciences Academic Press, 2011.
“An American Roadmap to Equality? Framing Feminist Goals in a Liberal Landscape” in Gender
Equality: Transforming Family Divisions. Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers, eds. 2009. NY:
Polity Press.
“Inequality, intersectionality and the politics of discourse: Framing feminist alliances.” Chapter 6 in The
Discursive Politics of Gender Equality: Stretching, Bending and Policy-making. Emanuela
Lombardo, Petra Meier and Mieke Verloo (editors), 2009, Routledge.
 2009 Distinguished contribution to scholarship article award, Section on Race, Class and Gender,
American Sociological Association
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“Framing Equality: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender in the US, Germany, and the Expanding
European Union” in Gendering Transformation, Yota Papageorgiou (editor) University of Crete,
Rethymno, 2007 and The Gender Politics of the European Union, Silke Roth (editor), Berghahn
Publishers, 2008.
“Assessing the Feminist Revolution: The Presence and Absence of Gender in Theory and Practice”
(MMF, Shamus Khan and Shauna Morimoto), Pp. 438-479 in Sociology in America: A History,
edited by Craig Calhoun, University of Chicago Press, 2007.
“On-line Identities and Organizational Connections: Networks of Transnational Feminist Websites” Pp.
141-166 in Gender Orders Unbound? Globalizaton, Restructuring and Reciprocity. Edited by Ilse
Lenz, Charlotte Ullrich, Barbara Fersch. Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2007.
“Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web: Networks and Identities in the Global North and South”
(MMF and Tetyana Pudrovska) and “Globalization and Feminism: Opportunities and Obstacles for
Activism in the Global Arena” in Global Feminism: Women’s Transnational Activism,
Organizations and Human Rights (edited with Aili Mari Tripp), New York University Press, 2006.
“Challenges of Hierarchy for Feminist Research and Activism: Some Reflections on American-Russian
Feminist Interactions” (MMF, Valerie Sperling and Barbara Risman) Pp. 137-156 in Rhyming
Hope & History: Activists, Academics and Social Movement Scholarship, David Croteau, William
Hoynes and Charlotte Ryan (eds), University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
“Metaphors of Class and Race: Comparing German and American Feminism” Pp 276-298 in Judith Pinch
et al. Looking forward, looking back: A women’s studies reader. New York: Prentice Hall, 2005.
“Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma and Silencing in Gender-based Movements” Pp 138-155 in
Repression and Mobilization. Christian Davenport, Hank Johnston and Carol Mueller (eds).
University of Minnesota Press. 2005.
 Also published in Daniel Myers and Daniel Cress (eds), Pp 85-101 in Authority in Contention,
JAI Press, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, volume 25, 2005.
“Feminism and the Women’s Movement: A Global Perspective” (MMF and Carol McClurg Mueller). Pp.
576-607 in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A.
Soule, and Hanspeter Kriesi, 2004.
 A shorter version also published as ““Gendering Social Movement Theory: Opportunities,
Organizations and Discourses in Women’s Movements Worldwide” in Das Jahrhundert des
Feminismus (A Century of Feminism), Anja Weikart and Ulla Wischermann, eds., Frankfurt a/M:
Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2006.
“Global denken, lokal handeln! Deutscher und amerikanischer Feminismus in Weltmassstab” Pp. 299324 in Ingrid Miethe, Claudia Kajatin and Jana Pohl (eds), Geschlechterkonstruktion in Ost und
West: Biographische Perspektiven. (Gender Relations in East and West: Biographical Perspectives)
Münster: Lit Verlag, 2004.
“The Gendering of Governance and the Governance of Gender” (MMF and William A. Gamson) Pp. 3563 in Recognition Struggles and Social Movements: Contested Identities, Agency and Power.
Barbara Hobson (ed.), Cambridge University Press. 2003.
“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: German and American Feminism in the World System.” Harry &
Helen Gray Humanities Program Series, Vol. 11. Sara Lennox and Silke Roth, editors. American
Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2002.
“Was bringt die Biografieforschung der Bewegungsforschung?” [What a biographical perspective has to
offer social movement research]. Pp. 111-129 in Ingrid Miethe and Silke Roth, eds., Politische
Biografien und Sozialer Wandel , Giessen, Psychosozial Verlag, 2001.
“The International Women’s Movement at Century’s End” (MMF and Mangala Subramaniam), pp.869890 in Gender Mosaics, Dana Vannoy (ed), Roxbury, 2000.
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An abbreviated, revised version published as “Activism” Routledge International Encyclopedia
of Women’s Studies, Dale Spender and Cheris Kramarae (eds.), 2001.
“Talking about Women and Wombs: Discourse about Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the GDR
During and After the ‘Wende’” (MMF and Eva Maleck-Lewy), Pp 92-117 in Reproducing Gender:
Politics, Publics and Everyday Life After Socialism. Susan Gal and Gail Kligman, eds, Princeton
University Press, 2000.
“The Globalization of Feminism: Abortion Discourse in the US and Germany” (with William A.
Gamson). Pp 40-56 in The Globalization of Social Movements. Donatella Della Porta, Hanspeter
Kriesi and Dieter Rucht, eds, London: Macmillan (NY: St Martin’s Press), 1999.
“The Importance of Variation among Men and the Benefits of Feminism for Families.” (With Julia
McQuillan) in Men in Families, Alan Booth and Ann Crouter, eds, Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum. 1998.
“German Unification and Feminist Identity” in Transitions, Environments, Translations: Feminisms in
International Politics, Joan Wallach Scott, Cora Kaplan, Diane Keats, eds., Routledge, 1997.
“Institutionalization, Identities and the Political Participation of Women in the New Federal States of
Germany” in Metta Spencer and Barbara Wejnert (eds), Women and Postcommunism, Research on
Russia and Eastern Europe, JAI Press, 1996.
 Also published as “Was heißt Feminismus? Frauenfragen, Frauenbewegungen und feministische
Identität von Frauen in den neuen Bundesländer.” (What is feminism? Women’s status,
women’s movements, and feminist identity in the former East Germany) in Frauenbewegung und
Frauenpolitik in Osteuropa, Christiane Lemke, Virginia Penrose and Uta Ruppert (eds),
Frankfurt a/M: Campus, 1995.
“Making Equality: The Women’s Affairs Officers of the Federal Republic of Germany” in Comparative
State Feminism, Dorothy Stetson and Amy Mazur, eds., 1995. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
“Negotiating Household Roles and Responsibilities: Resistance, Conflict and Change,” Pp. 203-221 in
Gender Roles through the Life Span: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Michael Stevenson (ed),
Muncie IN: Ball State University Press. 1994.
“The Political Context of Rationality: Rational Choice Theory and Resource Mobilization.” Pp. 29-52 in
Aldon Morris and Carol Mueller (eds), Frontiers of Social Movement Theory. New Haven CT:
Yale University Press, 1992.
 Spanish translation : “El contexto politico de la racionalidad: las teorias de la eleccion racional y
la movilizacion de recursos.” Pp. 151-182 in Los Nuevos Movimientos Sociales, Enrique Laraña
and Joseph Gusfield, eds. Madrid: Academia CIS, 1994.
“Political Strategies and Feminist Concerns in the US and Federal Republic of Germany: Class, Race and
Gender.” Pp. 221-240 in Louis Kriesberg and Metta Spencer (eds.) Research in Social Movements,
Conflict and Change, (Vol. 13) JAI Press, 1991.
“Gender, Conflict and Change: Family Roles in Biographical Perspective.” Pp. 144_161 in Walter Heinz
(ed), Theoretical Advances in Life Course Research. Weinheim (FRG): Deutscher Studien Verlag,
1991.
“Occupational and Environmental Technologies: Research and Resources for Change.” in Healing
Technology: Feminist Perspectives. Kathryn S. Ratcliff et al. (eds), Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1989.
“Frauen zwischen Hausarbeit und Erwerbsarbeit” (Women at the intersection of housework and paid
employment) in Frauenforschung und Hausarbeit, Hildegard Rapin (ed),Frankfurt a/M: Campus
Verlag, 1988
“She Works Hard for a Living: Gender and Class on the Job” in Analyzing Gender, Beth B. Hess and
Myra Marx Ferree (eds), Beverly Hills: Sage, 1987.
“Family and Job for Working_Class Women: Gender and Class Systems Seen From Below” in Families
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and Work: Toward Reconceptualization, Naomi Gerstel and Harriet Gross (eds), Temple
University Press, 1987.
“Introduction: Transformations of the Work Process” in Women, Work and Technology: Transformations.
Barbara Wright et al. (eds), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987.
“The Struggles of Superwoman” in Hidden Aspects of Women’s Work, Christine Bose, Natalie Sokoloff,
and Roslyn Feldberg (eds), NY: Praeger, 1987.
“Equality and Autonomy: Feminist Politics in the United States and West Germany” Pp 172-195 in The
Women’s Movements of Western Europe and the United States. Mary Katzenstein and Carol
McClurg Mueller (eds), Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
 Also published as: “Gleichheit und Autonomie: Probleme feministischer Politik” (Equality and
Autonomy: problems of feminist politics) Pp. 283-298 in Ute Gerhard et al. (eds), Differenz und
Gleichheit. Frankfurt a/M: Helmer Verlag, 1990.
“Sacrifice, Satisfaction and Social Change” in Karen Sacks and Dorothy Remy (eds.), My Troubles Are
Going To Have Trouble With Me, Rutgers University Press, 1984.
“Women’s Labor Force Participation and Rural-Urban Migration in India” (with Josef Gugler).
Demography India, 1983, 12 (2): 194-219. Also available as Working Paper #46, Women in
Development Series, Michigan State University.
“Housework: Rethinking the Costs and Benefits” in Irene Diamond (ed.), Families, Politics and Public
Policy: a Feminist Dialogue on Women and the State, Longman, 1983.
“Satisfaction with Housework: the Social Context” pp. 89-112 in Sarah F. Berk (ed.), Women and
Household Labor, Sage Yearbooks in Women’s Policy Studies, Vol. 5, 1980.
Review Essays
“Class and Gender in Teaching about Women and Work.” In The Sociology of Sex and Gender: Syllabi
and Teaching Materials , B. Thorne, M. Mc Cormack, V. Powell, D. Wunder (eds), American
Sociological Association Teaching Resource Center, 1985.
“Battle Cries on the Family Front.” Books by Peter Berger and Brigitte Berger, Capturing the Middle
Ground; Barbara Ehrenreich, The Hearts of Men; and Virginia Conover and Pamela Gray,
Feminism and the New Right. In Contemporary Sociology, 1984, 13 (2): 133_137.
“Is Motherhood Powerful? The new feminist analysis of mothering.” Qualitative Sociology, 1981, 4(4):
324-330.
Other Miscellaneous Publications
“Mehr Fairness wagen: Myra Marx Ferree und Kathrin Zippel plädieren als amerikanische
Wissenschaftlerinnen für das deutsche Antidiskriminierungsgesetz.” ("Daring More Fairness:
Myra Marx Ferree and Kathrin Zippel Argue as American Scientists for the German
Antidiscrimination Law"), Die Welt, April 10, 2005: 10.
“Akademisches Zukunftswesen” (Restructuring academia), Zeitschrift für Kulturaustausch, 2005,
55(3+4): 84-5.
“It’s Time to Mainstream Research on Gender” Symposium on sociology’s centennial, Chronicle of
Higher Education, August 11, 2005.
“German Feminist Politics in the 1990s” Symposium Introduction, Contemporary Sociology, 2003,
32(1):1-3.
“Sharing the Burden.” Boston Review. February/March 2002, 27(1): 24.
“The Confused American Housewife.” Psychology Today, September, 1976, pp. 76-80.
 Reprinted in Savells and Cross, The American Family: Making Way for Tomorrow.
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Selected Book Reviews
Parité: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism by Joan Scott, in American Journal of
Sociology, 2007, 112 (5): 1587-1589.
Abortion and Nation: The Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Ireland by Lisa Smyth.
Contemporary Sociology, 2006, 35 (3): 287-288.
Shaky Ground: The ‘60s and its Aftershocks by Alice Echols and Promise of a Dream by Sheila
Rowbotham, in Signs, 2005, 31 (1): 247-249.
Pro-life activists in America: Meaning, motivation and direct action by Carol Maxwell. In Mobilization,
2005, 10 (1): 185-186
Sex and the state: Abortion, divorce, and the family under Latin American dictatorships and democracies
by Maya Htun. In Comparative Political Studies, 2004, 37 (5): 611-614.
The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized by Elisabeth Armstrong, in Feminist
Theory, 2003, 4 (1):104-106.
Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements by Francesca Polletta, in
American Journal of Sociology, 2003, 108 (6): 1417-1419.
Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements by James Jasper, Jeffrey Goodwin and Francesca
Polletta, in Contemporary Sociology, 2002, 31(6):746-747.
Handbook of the Sociology of Gender, by Janet Salzman Chafetz, in American Journal of Sociology,
2000, 105(5):1484-1485.
Writing the social: Critique, theory, investigations by Dorothy Smith, in Contemporary Sociology, 2000,
29 (4): 672-673.
Women in Science by Angela Pattatucci and Career Strategies for Women in Academe by Lynn Collins,
Joan Chrisler and Kathryn Quinn, in Contemporary Psychology, 2000. 45(3): 290-291.
The Structure of Women’s Nonprofit Organizations by Rebecca Bordt, in Administrative Science
Quarterly, 1999. 44(2): 417.
Emigré Feminism: Transnational Perspectives by Alena Heitlinger, (ed.), in Canadian Journal of
Sociology Online, 1999. <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/cjscopy/reviews/emfem.html>
Women’s Activism in Russia by Linda Racciopi and Kathleen See, in Gender & Society, 1999, 13(1):138139.
Social Transformation and the Family in Post-Communist Germany by Eva Kolinsky (ed.)
Contemporary Sociology, 1999, 28 (2): 177-178.
Professional Consulting
1993-95
1992-94
1988-91
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, University of Connecticut. (Supervise data
collection and analysis for report on gender segregation in schools, departments, majors and
programs at the university, including a qualitative analysis of the experiences of women of
color.)
Gender Inequity Salary Study, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT.
(Design and supervise application of policy-capturing model of faculty salaries for the VicePresident’s Committee on Women’s Issues; substantial inequity awards to female medical
school faculty members resulted.)
Task Force on Gender, Justice and the Courts, Office of the Chief Justice, Connecticut Judicial
Department. (Develop questionnaires and sampling plans, analyze and present data for several
major surveys of attorneys, judges and court personnel. A state program of judicial training
and a further study of the status of women in law firms by the Connecticut Bar Association
were implemented as a result.)
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1988-91
1986-88
1985-87
1981-83
Evaluation of the General Education Curriculum, FIPSE Grant to the University of
Connecticut. (Participate in developing instruments for assessing impact of requirements on
students).
Gender Inequity Salary Study, Joint Administration/AAUP Committee, University of
Connecticut. (Conduct and present statistical analysis of sex-based salary differences among
faculty. Inequity awards averaging $1800 per female faculty member were made on the basis
of this study.)
Balanced Curriculum Assessment, Women’s Studies Program, University of Connecticut.
(Conduct and analyze surveys of student responses to content on women and minorities in
English and History general education courses. A program to increase coverage of diversity
was implemented on the basis of these results.)
Sex Discrimination in Non-Traditional Employment, Connecticut Women’s Educational and
Legal Fund. (Conduct analysis of personnel records in support of sex discrimination class
action case by female blue-collar workers. Case was settled out of court with awards averaging
over ten thousand dollars per woman worker.)
Papers and Conferences
Invited conference lectures and addresses
“Revisioning Gender” Plenary paper session, American Sociological Association, “Sociological
Traditions: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk” (Las Vegas, August 2011.
“Intersectionality and feminist politics: a comparison of alliances and framing strategies in the US and
Europe” Keynote address at Women’s Worlds: Ninth International Interdisciplinary Congress on
Women, Madrid (June 2008), and presented at international invited workshops at the Institute for
Human Sciences, Vienna (December 2008), the Cornelia Goethe Center, J.-W.-Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main (January 2009), University of Antwerp (December 2010).
“Framing inequality politics in Europe and the US: Race and class metaphors for gender” Keynote
address, Equality is Not Enough conference, University of Antwerp, December 2010. Keynote
address, Gender-Genre-Geschlecht conference, University of Bern, September 2007. Keynote
address, Gender Politics and EU Expansion, University of Pennsylvania, February 2005; Gender
transformations in the academy, University of Crete, Rythemno, Greece May 2005.
“Assessing the science: German research on violence against women in international perspective”
Keynote address, National conference on violence against women co-sponsored by German
Federal Ministry on Families, Women, Youth and Seniors and University of Osnabrück, September
2004. (http://www.bmfsfj.de/Kategorien/Forschungsnetz/forschungsberichte,did=26370.html)
“Speaking in different tongues: Abortion discourse and religion in Germany and the US” Thematic
session. American Sociological Association, August, 2004; more elaborated version also presented
at American Academy in Berlin, May 2005.
“Comparative approaches to women’s studies” Keynote address, University of Nebraska System-wide
Women’s Studies conference. January 2004; Texas Tech Women’s Studies Anniversary
Celebration Conference, February 2007, Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning,
University of Richmond, February 2010.
“Transnational feminisms and local women’s movements.” Invited keynote. Women’s Worlds
Conference. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. July 2002.
“Soft repression: Ridicule, stigma and silencing in gender-based movements.” Conference on the
Dynamics of Protest and Repression, University of Maryland. June 2001; Workshop on social
movements, Notre Dame University, August 2002.
“Thinking globally, acting locally: German and American feminism in the world system.” American
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Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC, May 2001, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe
University, Frankfurt a/M, Germany, February 2004.
“Talking about women and wombs: abortion discourse in Germany and the United States.” Robin
Williams Distinguished Lecturer, Eastern Sociological Society, March 2001. (also presented at
Messiah College and Penn State Altoona as part of this lectureship)
“The gendering of governance and the governance of gender: women’s role in abortion debates in
Germany and the US.” Plenary session, Germany through a Gendered Lens, Joint conference
sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service, University of North Carolina, and Duke
University, October, 1999.
“Was bringt die Biographieforschung der Bewegungsforschung?” (Biographical contributions to social
movement research). Plenary presentation, International invitational conference, Politische
Biographien und sozialer Wandel, Berlin, June 1999.
“The international women’s movement” Invited thematic, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March
1999.
“Gender and voice in abortion debates.” Plenary session. International Invitational Conference,
“Recognition Struggles: Gender and Politics.” University of Stockholm, October 1998.
“The framing contest between prolife and prochoice movements” Plenary session, Conference on Politics
and the Media, University of Nebraska, April 1998.
“Gender and civil society: global perspectives.” Thematic session, American Sociological Association,
August 1997.
“Men in families: issues of difference and variability” (with Julia McQuillan) Plenary session for the
national conference, Men in Families, Penn State University, October 1996.
“Talking about women and wombs: Discourse about abortion and reproductive rights in the GDR during
and after the Wende.” (with Eva Maleck-Lewy), American Council of Learned Societies
Conference on Reproductive Rights in Post-Socialist States, Lucca, Italy, June 1996.
“Gender and social change in Germany: sociological perspectives.” Plenary session for the annual
meeting of Women in German, St. Augustine FL, October 1995.
“The effects of the international women’s movement on abortion discourse in the U.S. and Germany”
(with William A. Gamson), Plenary session, Conference on Cross-national Influences and Social
Movement Research, Mont Pélèrin, Switzerland. June 1995.
“Patriarchies and feminisms in East and West.” Plenary address, “Transitions, Environments,
Translations: Meanings of feminism in contemporary politics.” Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, NJ, April 1995.
“Institutionalisierungsprozesse und ihre Auswirkungen auf die politische Partizipation von Frauen in den
neuen Bundesländern.” (Institutionalisation and its effects on political participation by ex-GDR
women). Invited address to the German Political Science Association (DVPW), Potsdam, August
1994.
“The wall remaining: Two feminist movements in one German state.” Invited address for the conference:
Crossing Borders: Gender and the State. Stockholm, Sweden, May 1994.
“After mommy politics: dilemmas of special treatment in post-unification Germany.” Keynote address at
North Central Sociological Association Annual Meeting, April 1994.
“After the Wall: Gender issues in post-unification Germany.” Keynote address at Conference on Women
and Gender Relations in a Changing World, in honor of the 90th birthday of Alice Cook. Cornell
University, October 1993.
“Women at the Wall: Gender issues in social policy.” Plenary session, Conference on German
Unification, Notre Dame University, April, 1993.
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“Continuity and change in feminism and women’s lives.” Conference on Crossing Currents:
Contemporary Women’s Movements in the United States and Germany. University of Michigan,
September, 1992.
“A comparative look at women in America.” Harvard German Workshop. Harvard Center for European
Studies, May 1992.
“Feminist perspectives on social movements.” International Conference on Social Movements,
Universidad International Menendez Pelayo, Santander, Spain, July, 1990.
“Equality and autonomy: Problems of feminist politics.” Plenary Address. International Conference on
Gender and Human Rights (Menschenrechte haben (k)ein Geschlecht). In Honor of the 200th
Anniversary of the French Revolution. J.W._Goethe University, Frankfurt, FRG. October, 1989.
“Gender, conflict and change: Family roles in biographical perspective.” Plenary Address, Conference on
Status Passages and Risks in a Life Course Perspective, University of Bremen, October, 1989.
“Expectations and equity: Social class and family role negotiations.” Plenary Address, International
Conference on Gender and Class, University of Antwerp-UIA, Belgium. September, 1989.
“The women’s movement in West Germany.” Plenary Address, Conference on Twentieth Century
German Women, University of Cincinnati, February, 1989.
“The dismal science and social movement theory.” Formal commentary. ASA Problems in the Discipline
Workshop on Social Movement Theory, Ann Arbor, MI, June, 1988.
“Negotiating household roles and responsibilities: Resistance, conflict and change.” Distinguished
Lecturer, National Council on Family Relations Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November, 1988.
(Also presented as Plenary Address, Gender Roles Through the Life Span, Ball State University,
October, 1988).
“Superwomen: the issue of housework for employed married women.” Lecture and participation in
Conference on Women and the Household, Giessen, W. Germany, November, 1987. (in German)
“Social change and working mothers.” Plenary and week-long participation at the International Seminar
on Family Education, National Women’s Education Center, Saitama, Japan, March, 1985.
“Resource mobilization: A critical look”. Formal commentary. Symposium on the Dynamics of Social
Movements. Vanderbilt University. March, 1977.
Refereed Conference Papers and Symposia Presented (Since 1995)
“Framing equality: race, class and gender in the US, Germany and the EU” Women’s Studies in Europe
triennial conference (IAOFE-WISE), Łodz, Poland, August 2006.
“Transnational feminist organizations on the web: The case of the European Women’s Lobby” (with
Tetyana Pudrovska Council on European Studies, Conference of Europeanists. Chicago, March
2004 and European Council for Political Research, Istanbul, September 2006 (also presented by
invitation at the University of Stockholm, Sweden April 2005 and Potsdam University, Germany,
May 2005).
“Framing women’s issues: the case of abortion.” Council on European Studies, Conference of
Europeanists. Chicago, March 2002.
“Feminist mobilization on abortion” German Studies Association. Washington DC, October, 2001.
“Actors and frames in the abortion conflict: Germany and the US” (in German, with Jürgen Gerhards, Bill
Gamson, Dieter Rucht). Conference Grenzlose Gesellschaft (society without borders) of the
German Sociological Association, Freiburg, September 1998.
“Gender issues in the abortion debate” (with Bill Gamson, Joan Twiggs, Lynn Resnick Dufour, Danielle
Currier). Special symposium session, Eastern Sociological Society, March 1998.
“The women’s movement: diversity and change.” (with Patricia Yancey Martin). Southern Sociological
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Society, New Orleans, March 1997.
“The gendering of abortion discourse: Assessing global feminist influence in the United States and
Germany, 1972-1994. (with Bill Gamson). Sixth International Interdisciplinary Congress on
Women, Adelaide, Australia, April 1996.
“Constructing women’s strikes: Childcare workers’ strike and WomenStrikeDay as protest events” (with
Silke Roth). Eastern Sociological Society, March 1996.
“Identities and institutionalization: the case of German feminism.” American Sociological Association,
Washington DC. August 1995.
“The political context of abortion discourse” (with Bill Gamson) Eastern Sociological Society,
Philadelphia, March 1995.
Invited University Lectures and Colloquia (since 1990)
“Framing inequality: gender, race and class in the US, Germany and the EU.” University of Amsterdam,
Center for Research in Gender Studies, November, 2010.Florida International University,
November 2007, McGill University, Yale University, Boston University March 2006, UW Law
school, October 2006.
“Defining women’s interests” Universities in Kassel, Hannover, Erfurt, Osnabrück and Bochum in
Germany, April-May 2004, Vienna, Austria, June 2004, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
November 2004, Free University Berlin, May 2005, Indiana University, February 2006.
“Transnational feminism on the web” University of Stockholm, April 2005, University of Potsdam,
Germany May 2005, Dept. of Communication Sciences, UW-Madison October 2005, University of
Pittsburgh, February 2006.
“Over, under, around and through the state: German feminist activism” Invited lecture, University of
North Carolina Series, 50 years of the Federal Republic of Germany, October 1999. Lecture for
women’s studies, Universität Greifswald, Germany, September, 2002 and Cornelia Goethe Center
for Research on Women, J-W-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt a/M Germany, February 2004.
“Talking about women and wombs: the shape of the abortion debate in Germany and the US.” Colloquia
presented with gradually evolving material at Rutgers University, April 1998, University of
California-Berkeley, February 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April,1999; Northwestern
University, November 2000, Arizona State University, February 2001, Messiah College and Penn
State Altoona, March 2001, UCLA Women’s Studies Program, April 2001, Gettysburg College,
March 2002, Kent State University, April 2002, Wright State University, April 2003, University of
Nebraska, January 2004.
“Gender is not a four-letter word: feminist transformations in the social sciences.” Kingsley Birge
Lecture, Colby College, April 1997; Keynote address, Women’s Studies Annual Conference,
University of Connecticut, April 1998; Address for graduating seniors, Kent State University, April
2002.
“Women and the wall: Gender and German unification.” Colloquia presented, with gradually evolving
material, in various forms at: Bowdoin College, April 1997; Ohio State University April 1994;
Keene State College, February 1994; Westminster College, October 1993; Flinders University
(South Australia), May 1993; Loyola University, April, 1993; Boston SWS, March, 1993; Old
Dominion University, October, 1992; Harvard Center for European Studies, February 1992 &
February 1995; DC Sociological Society, January 1992; Clark University, Women’s Studies
Program, October 1991.
“Transformations of the women’s movement in the U.S. 1960-1990” Colloquium presented at the John F.
Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, May, 1991.
“Radical feminism and state politics in Germany.” Workshop presentation. Conference on the Women’s
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Movement, University of Aarhus, Denmark, October, 1990 and revised for the Conference on the
International Women’s Movement, Hameln, Germany, July 1994.
“Gender and Grievances in the Division of Labor.” Colloquia presented at Smith College, March, 1991;
Department of Sociology, Technical University, Berlin (FRG), June, 1991.
Other Conference Roles
Critic, Author meets Critics session for Kathleen Gerson, The Unfinished Revolution. American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
Discussant (session for Mellon Dissertation Fellowship Holders) 17th International Conference of
Europeanists, Montreal, Canada, April 15-17, 2010.
Participant, DAAD Research Network Conference, Grenzen und Grenzgänger, and Center Directors’
Meeting. WZB, Berlin. May 2010.
Invited Presidential Panel Participant, Panel on “Raewyn Connell’s Gender and Power in Historical
Perspective” Social Science History Association, October 2010.
Organized special panel at German Studies Association on perspectives on gender and social change as
part of series “20 years after the Mauerfall” (with Ingrid Miethe and Ute Gerhard), October 2010.
Selected Participant (with Susan Friedman, English & Gender and Women’s Studies, and Edward
Friedman, Political Science & East Asian Studies) on Niagara Foundation Discussion-Tour in
Turkey (topics: gender and religion, Turkey’s relations with Europe and Turkey’s role in the
world), May 2010.
Co-Organizer, “New Perspectives on Gender and Human Security.” Conference for Gender and
International Policy Research Circle and TARGET, with co-sponsoring support from the European
Union Center of Excellence, Center for Research on Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
Global Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2010.
Invited panel participant, ASA Thematic sessions on cosmopolitanism (with Ulrich Beck, Craig Calhoun
and Saskia Sasson, 2009); celebrating the work of Barbara Ehrenreich (2009), on gender and
welfare state transformations (with Joan Acker, Sylvia Walby, Raka Ray, Heidi Gottfried) in 2008,
Critic for Author meets Critics session on Linda Zerilli’s Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom
(2007).
Organizer, “Cultures of Democracy? Germany and the United States at Home and Abroad” Conference in
Honor of the DAAD Center for German and European Studies Tenth Anniversary. With funding
from the University of Wisconsin, the Goethe Institute, the Hans-Böckler Foundation, and others.
University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2007.
Invited Participant, Institutions for Gender Equality, Real Utopias Conference, October 2006.
Invited Participant, Social Transformations and Women’s Status in Highly Industrialized Societies,
GLOW workshop on comparisons between Germany, Japan and the US, 2005-6.
Organizer, Responding to Violence against Women: Perspectives from the European Union” Invitational
workshop, November 2004, co-sponsored by the Women’s Studies Research Center, the LaFollette
Institute for Public Policy, the European Union Center and the Center for German and European
Studies, University of Wisconsin.
Organizer, “Gender Politics in the European Union” April 2003 Invitation-based working conference,
University of Wisconsin European Union Center and Anonymous Fund (25 presenters; selected
papers published in Social Politics, 2004 and in Global Feminism, NYU Press, 2006).
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Organizer, “The politics of carework.” UW-Madison European Union Center and Department of
Sociology Training Program in Gender (Three invited panels), April 2002.
Organizer, “Integrating feminist scholarship and activism” Sociologists for Women in Society Winter
Meeting Program (5 invited panels), February 2001.
Invited participant, “East meets West.” A working group conference on gender and international politics.
University of Lund, Sweden. June, 1996.
Invited participant, “Comparative State Feminism.” A working group conference sponsored by the
American Council of Learned Societies. University of Leiden, The Netherlands, July 1995.
Invited participant, “Gender and feminist mobilization in the former Soviet Union.” A working group
conference sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation with additional support from the National
Science Foundation. Moscow, Russia, August 1994.
Invited participant, “Women, Gender and the Transition: The politics of reproduction in Eastern Europe.”
A working group conference sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies. (Susan Gal
and Gail Kligman, co-PIs) Lucca, Italy, June 1993.
Organizer (with Patricia Yancey Martin), “Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women’s
Movement,” an interdisciplinary working group conference. Washington DC, February 1992.
Invited Participant in Project on Women and Social Change Workshop, Smith College, June 1984
Founding Member, A.S.A. Problems in the Discipline: Women & Work Study Group, 1978-80.
Invited participant, First National Working Conference on Research: Women in Blue Collar Jobs, Ford
Foundation, 1974.
Invited participant, Bryn Mawr Conference on the Liberal Arts Education, Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, 1971.
Discussant at A.S.A. panels on gender and the state (2003), feminism (1986, 1990, 1995); women and
work (2003, 1988, 1985); radical sociology (1984); social movements (2002, 1991, 1987, 1980);
social psychology (1985, 1978); thematic panel on women and power, 1983.
Organizer of ASA Professional Workshops: Turning your dissertation into a book (2001, 2003);
Women’s Studies Research Centers (1989); panels on gender and the transformation in Eastern
Europe, 1993; and gender and social movement theory, 1992.
Discussant at Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, “Feminist Counter-Institutions,” 1990;
Organizer of a panel on Gender and German Unification, 1993.
Selected Non-Academic Talks and Workshops
“The politics of pay equity in academia,” Southern Connecticut State University AAUP Chapter, March
2001.
“Sexual harassment and gender inequity” Connecticut Bar Association Labor Law Group, November
1991; CBA Task Force on Gender Justice, February 1992.
“Sex differences, sex roles and gender: New ideas for the Nineties” Lecture presented at the Guild of
Scholars of the Episcopal Church, November, 1989; Dupont Chemical Co., April, 1990.
“Motherhood.” Public lecture jointly sponsored by Hartford area colleges, for conference, “Sharing
Power with Women,” April, 1985.
“Comparable worth and you.” Workshops given at the Day for UConn Women (October, 1985) and the
conference “Pay Equity: Everybody’s Issue,” University of Connecticut, November, 1985.
“Understanding the tenure system.” Workshop given at conference, “Understanding and Surviving the
Academic Marketplace.” University of Connecticut School of Education, November, 1983.
“Realities of women’s work in the Eighties.” Public lecture for Rhode Island Department of Education,
Bureau of Vocational and Adult Education, October, 1983; In_service workshop for high school
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teachers, Storrs CT. April, 1982; Workshop for CETA trainers, Providence RI, 1978.
“Frauen und Gewerkschaften in den USA” (Women & Unions in the U.S.), German Trade Union
Federation Regional Women’s Conference, Stuttgart, W. Germany, December, 1982.(in German)
“Changing the workplace”. University of Connecticut Centennial Conference: “Managing the Double
Day.” Hartford, CT., 1980.
Selected Recent Administrative Responsibilities
University of Wisconsin:
2004-08, 09-11
2003-04
2002-03
2002-03
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Director, DAAD Center for German and European Studies
Sociology Department: Assistant Professor Review Committee
Sociology Department: Chair, Advanced Standing Committee & Chair, Associate
Professor Search Committee
Interim Director, European Union Center
Women’s Studies Program: Executive Committee, Research Committee
Sociology Department: Advanced Standing Committee
Executive Committees: Sociology Department, Center for German and European
Studies, European Union Center, Gender and Women’s Studies Department
University of Connecticut:
1998-00
1995-98
Appointed Member, University of Connecticut Growth and Development Committee
Elected Member, Committee of Three (University-wide grievance committee),
University Senate
1994-96
Co-Chair, President’s Commission of the Status of Women
1995-96
University Strategic Planning Committee for Research
1999-02; 1994-97; 1983-89
At-Large elected member, University Senate
1995-96; 1988-91; 1982-84; 1977-80 Chair, Graduate Program Committee, Sociology Department
1987-90
Member, University Research Council
1985-87
Director, Women’s Studies Program
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