January 8, 2007 MYRA MARX FERREE 7103 Social Sciences Building 17 Sauk Creek Circle 1180 Observatory Dr. Madison WI 53717 University of Wisconsin 608-824-9705 Madison WI 53706 608-265-5389 (fax) 608-263-5204 (voice)
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Education 1976 Ph.D., Harvard University, in the Social Psychology Program of the Department of Psychology and Social Relations 1971 A.B., Bryn Mawr College, Magna cum laude, in the Department of Political Science 1969-70 University of Hamburg, W. Germany, in Modern European History
Employment 2006- Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2004- Director, Center for German and European Studies 2002-3 Director, European Union Center, University of Wisconsin 2001- Joint appointment with Women’s Studies 2000- Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1991-2000 Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Connecticut 1987-1991 Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 1985-7 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 2005 (Jan/June) Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin 2004 (May/July) Marie Jahoda Distinguished Visiting Professor, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany 1993 (May) Visiting Professor, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 1985 (Apr/July) Guest Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, West Germany
Grants and Fellowships 2004-5 Berlin Prize Fellowship, The American Academy in Berlin “The struggle for sisterhood” 1996-97 National Council for Soviet and East European Research Grant (coordinate with Barbara Risman) “The Russian Women’s Movement: Local and Global Influences” 1993-96 1993-1996 NSF Grant (coordinate with William A. Gamson), “Social Movements and Public Discourse: The Abortion Debate in Germany and the US” 1990-91 German Marshall Fund Fellowship, “Equality and Autonomy: Political Strategies and Feminist Concerns in Germany” 1990-92 Problems in the Discipline, ASA/NSF Conference Grant, “Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the Women’s Movement” (with Patricia Yancey Martin) 1988-90 NSF Grant, “Perceived Equity in the Household Division of Labor.” 1982-83 Woodrow Wilson Faculty Development Grant 1982-83 German Academic Exchange Service Research Fellowship 1982-83 University of Connecticut Sabbatical Research Grant 1981 Federation of Professional Women’s Organizations Travel Award 1978-79 Dept. of Labor Grant, “Causal models of women’s employment attitudes.” 1977 University of Connecticut Faculty Summer Fellowship 1974-75 Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies 1974-75 Peter B. Livingston Research Fellowship, Harvard University 1974-75 National Institute of Mental Health Fellowship 1971-72 National Science Foundation Training Grant, Harvard University
Awards 2004 Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association 2001 Robin Williams Distinguished Lecturer, Eastern Sociological Society 1997 Sociologists for Women in Society, Mentoring Award 1995 Excellence in Equity Award, AAUW, Connecticut Chapter 1992 Cheryl Miller Feminist Lecturer, Sociologists for Women and Society 1988 Distinguished Lecturer, National Council on Family Relations 1987 Outstanding Woman in Education (Connecticut) UN/USA Association
Editorial Positions 2003-2006 Deputy Editor, American Sociological Review 2001-2007 International Board, Journal of Sociology 2001-2004 Editorial Board, Women in German Yearbook 2000-2003 Editorial Board, Contexts 1999-2001 Editorial Board, American Journal of Sociology 1994-2001 Editorial Board, Public Opinion Quarterly 1992- Series Editor, Perspectives on Gender, Routledge 1990-5 Editorial Board, American Sociological Review 1988-0 Consulting Editor, Perspectives on Gender Monograph Series, Unwin Hyman 1987-88 Women’s Studies/Social Science Advisor, Books for College Libraries (Choice compendium of recommended books) 1986-90 Associate Editor, Gender & Society 1985-88 Advisory Editor, The Sociological Quarterly 1980-83 Associate Editor, Contemporary Sociology
Professional Associations (* indicates elective office)
2000-2 *President-elect and President, Sociologists for Women in Society 2000 Chair, ASA Taskforce on Committee on Committees/Committee on Nominations 1999 Co-chair, Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems 1997-2000 *Publications Committee, Sociologists for Women in Society 1996 *Vice-President, American Sociological Association 1990-93 *Council, American Sociological Association (Council liaison to Committee on Teaching, Minority Fellowship Committee) 1991-2 *Chair, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, ASA 1988-9 Co-chair, Program Committee, Eastern Sociological Society 1988 Chair, Dissertation Paper Award Committee, Sex and Gender Section, ASA 1987 Candace Rogers Award Selection Committee, Eastern Sociological Society 1987-90 *Council, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, ASA 1986-88 *Committee on Nominations, American Sociological Association 1985-86 *Chair, Sex and Gender Section, American Sociological Association 1984-86 *Committee on Committees, American Sociological Association 1984 Program Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems 2 1977-79 Committee on Women, Eastern Sociological Society (Chair, 1978_79) 1977-79 Social Psychology Award Committee, American Sociological Association
Other Professional Service
2005-8 Selection Committee, Berlin Program Graduate Fellowships, SSRC & Free University Berlin 2005 Selection Committee, EMGIP Awards, German Academic Exchange Service 2002 Advisory Committee, Democracy and Society Program, Institute for Women’s Policy Research 2001-4 Advisory Board, Political Research Associates, Campus Activism Project 1996 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 1993-1996 Advisory Board, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies 1991-1993 Selection Panel, Fulbright Scholarships to Germany, Institute of International Education, New York 1989-1991 Sociology Review Panel, National Science Foundation 1987-1990 Research Council (Grant research awards and set policy university-wide), University of Connecticut Research Foundation 1984-1986 Social Sciences Review Panel, Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Publications
Books: 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 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.
3 Refereed Articles: “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” (with Jessica Autumn Brown), 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” (with Tetyana Pudrovska), Social Politics, 2004, 11(1): 117-143. “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” (with 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” (with 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” (with Valerie Sperling and Barbara J. Risman), Signs, 2001, 26 (4): 1155-1186. “Meaning and Measurement: Reconceptualizing measures of the division of household labor” (with Joan Twiggs and Julia McQuillan), Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1999, 61: 712-724. “The Russian women’s movement: Activists’ strategies and identities.” (with 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.” (with 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 and Kathryn S.Ratcliff), 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”) (with Silke Roth) 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” (with Julia McQuillan), Gender & Society, 1998, 12(1): 7-39. “Rethinking stratification from a feminist perspective: Gender, race and class in mainstream textbooks” (with 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. 4 “Three steps back for women: gender, German unification and university ‘reform’” (with 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.) (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.” (with 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” (with E. Hall), 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” (with F.D. Miller), Sociological Inquiry, 1985, 55 (1): 38-61. (reprinted in Social Movements: Critical Concepts, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James Jaspers, Routledge, forthcoming 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, 109:87-97. (with Eliot R. Smith) “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. 5 “A Short Scale of Attitudes toward Feminism” (with E. R. Smith and F.D. Miller), 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):390- 399.
Other Journal Publications: “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: “Assessing the feminist revolution: the presence and absence of gender in theory and practice” (with Shamus Khan and Shauna Morimoto) In American Sociology: A Centenary, edited by Craig Calhoun, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2007. “Transnational Feminist NGOs on the Web: Networks and Identities in the Global North and South” (with 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.
“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 and The Gender Politics of the European Union, Silke Roth (editor), Berghahn Publishers, forthcoming, 2006.
“Challenges of hierarchy for feminist research and activism: Some reflections on American-Russian feminist interactions” (with Valerie Sperling and Barbara Risman) Pp. 137-156 in Rhyming Hope & History: Activits, Academics and Social Movement Scholarship, David Croteau, William Hoynes and 6 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” (with 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. 299-324 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” (with William A. Gamson) Pp. 35-63 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” (with Mangala Subramaniam), pp.869-890 in Gender Mosaics, Dana Vannoy (ed), Roxbury, 2000. (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’” (with 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.
7 “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 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), 8 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: “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).
Selected Recent Book Reviews: Freedom is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements. By Francesca Polletta, in American Journal of Sociology The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized by Elisabeth Armstrong. In Feminist Theory, 2003, 4 (1):104-106. Shaky Ground: The ‘60s and its Aftershocks by Alice Echols and Promise of a Dream by Sheila Rowbotham. In Signs . Passionate politics: Emotions and social movements .by James Jasper, Jeffrey Goodwin and Francesca Polletta. Contemporary Sociology. 2002, 31(6):746-747. Handbook of the Sociology of Gender. American Journal of Sociology, 2000, 105(5):1484-1485. Women in Science by Angela Pattatucci and Career Strategies for Women in Academe by Lynn Collins, Joan Chrisler and Kathryn Quinn, Contemporary Psychology, 2000. 45(3): 290-291. The Structure of Women’s Nonprofit Organizations by Rebecca Bordt. Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999. 44(2): 417. Emigré Feminism:Transnational Perspectives by Alena Heitlinger, (ed.). Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, 1999.
Papers and Conferences
Invited conference lectures and addresses “Framing inequality politics in Europe and the US: Race and class metaphors for gender” Keynote address, 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. “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 Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Washington DC, May 2001, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe 10 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. “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 11 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, FRG. 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. A.S.A 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 1990) “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 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. “Bringing the feminist revolution to sociology: Stratification paradigms and the transformation of sociological discourse.” (with Elaine Hall). Theory session, American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994. “Economic dependence, equity and the division of labor in two-earner households” (with Denise Anthony). 12 International Sociological Association, Bielefeld, July 1994. “The time of chaos was the best: Feminist mobilization and de-mobilization in the former GDR.” Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore MD, March 1994. “The double day revisited: Housework, equity and mental health outcomes” (with Julia McQuillan). American Psychological Association, Washington DC, August1992. “The Rise and Fall of ‘Mommy Politics’: Feminism and Social Policy in (East) Germany.” Eastern Sociological Society, Arlington VA April 1992 “Gender and Grievances in the Household Division of Labor.” Eastern SociologicalSociety, Providence RI, April, 1991. “Sharing Housework in Dual Earner Households.” American Sociological Association, Washington DC, August, 1990. “Models of Rationality in Social Movements.” International Sociological Association, Madrid, Spain. July, 1990. “Social Class and Family Role Negotiations.” Eastern Sociological Society, Boston MA. March, 1990.
Invited University Lectures and Colloquia (since 1990)
“Framing inequality: gender, race and class in the US, Germany and the EU” McGill University, Yale 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 Movement, University of Aarhus, Denmark, October,1990 and revised for the Conference on the International Women’s Movement, Hameln, Germany, July 1994. 13 “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 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 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). 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. 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 Summer 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 A.S.A. 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 14 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 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- Director, DAAD Center for German and European Studies 2003-4 Sociology Department: Assistant Professor Review Committee 2002-3 Sociology Department: Chair, Advanced Standing Committee & Chair, Associate Professor Search Committee 2002-3 Interim Director, European Union Center 2001- Women’s Studies Program: Executive Committee, Research Committee 2001-2 Sociology Department: Advanced Standing Committee 2000 - Executive Committees: Center for German and European Studies, European Union Center
University of Connecticut: 1998-2000 Appointed Member, University of Connecticut Growth and Development Committee 1995-98 Elected Member, Committee of Three, University Senate 1994-96 Co-Chair, President’s Commission of the Status of Women 1995-96 University Strategic Planning Committee for Research 1983-89, 1994-1997, 1999-2002, 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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