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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association

Overview

Myra Marx Ferree is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research is predominantly situated within the social sciences, with substantial contributions to gender studies, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and history.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
  • European history and politics
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • German legal, social, and political studies
  • Sociology and Education Studies
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media

Myra Marx Ferree has published extensively on these themes, with recent papers covering key issues such as democracy, gender, and feminism. Notable recent publications include:

  • The Crisis of Masculinity for Gendered Democracies: Before, During, and After Trump (2020) in Sociological Forum
  • Democracy and Demography: Intersectional Dimensions of German Politics (2021) in Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society
  • Under different umbrellas: intersectionality and alliances in US feminist politics (2021) in European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • Erfahrungsräume und Frauenkampf. Ein Gespräch über die amerikanische und deutsche Frauenbewegung (2020) in Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
  • After Trump? Radical Selfishness versus the Ethic of Care (2021) in Sociological Forum

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Aili Mari Tripp
  • Tetyana Pudrovska
  • EVA MALECK-LEWY

Myra Marx Ferree has contributed to several academic journals, with multiple publications in Sociological Forum. Other venues include the European Journal of Politics and Gender, Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society, and Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte.

The scholar has also authored book publications, including a title published by New York University Press eBooks:

  • Global Feminism (2022)

Recognition of their work includes the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association, received in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities*

    Hae Yeon Choo;Myra Marx Ferree

  • Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States

    Myra Marx Ferree;William Anthony Gamson;Jürgen Gerhards;Dieter Rucht

  • Beyond Separate Spheres: Feminism and Family Research.

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement Across Three Decades of Change

    Myra Marx Ferree;Beth B. Hess

  • Four models of the public sphere in modern democracies

    Myra Marx Ferree;William A. Gamson;Jürgen Gerhards;Dieter Rucht

  • Resonance and Radicalism: Feminist Framing in the Abortion Debates of the United States and Germany1

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement

    Wini Breines;Myra Marx Ferree;Patricia Yancy Martin

  • The Gender Division of Labor in Two-Earner Marriages Dimensions of Variability and Change

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Global feminism : transnational women's activism, organizing, and human rights

    Myra Marx Ferree;Aili Mari Tripp

  • Gender and Fairness: Marital Satisfaction in Two-Earner Couples

    Jane Riblett Wilkie;Myra Marx Ferree;Kathryn Strother Ratcliff

  • Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families.

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Mobilization and Meaning: Toward an Integration of Social Psychological and Resource Perspectives on Social Movements

    Myra Marx Ferree;Frederick D. Miller

  • Feminism and the Women's Movement: A Global Perspective

    Myra Marx Ferree;Carol McClurg Mueller

  • Inequality, intersectionality and the politics of discourse: Framing feminist alliances

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Working-Class Jobs: Housework and Paid Work as Sources of Satisfaction

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Analyzing gender : a handbook of social science research

    Beth B. Hess;Myra Marx Ferree

  • From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism, and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens

    Sarah K. Bruch;Myra Marx Ferree;Joe Soss

  • A short scale of attitudes toward feminism.

    Eliot R. Smith;Myra M. Ferree;Frederick D. Miller

  • The political context of rationality: Rational choice theory and resource mobilization.

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Rethinking Stratification from a Feminist Perspective: Gender, Race, and Class in Mainstream Textbooks

    Myra Marx Ferree;Elaine J. Hall

  • Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement

    Myra Marx Ferree;Beth B. Hess

  • GENDER, CLASS, AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS A Strike of West Berlin Day Care Workers

    Myra Marx Ferree;Silke Roth

  • Hot Movements, Cold Cognition: Thinking about Social Movements in Gendered Frames

    Myra Marx Ferree;David A. Merrill

  • Shaping Abortion Discourse: Tables and Figures

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  • A Woman for President? Changing Responses: 1958-1972

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • SOFT REPRESSION: RIDICULE, STIGMA, AND SILENCING IN GENDER-BASED MOVEMENTS

    Myra Marx Ferree

  • Race Differences in Abortion Attitudes

    Elaine J. Hall;Myra Marx Ferree

  • Global Activism in "Virtual Space": The European Women's Lobby in the Network of Transnational Women's NGOs on the Web

    Tetyana Pudrovska;Myra Marx Ferree

  • Zeitgeist as an Empirical Phenomenon@@@The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion--Our Social Skin.

    Myra Marx Ferree;Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. Gamson
William A. Gamson Boston College
Eliot R. Smith
Eliot R. Smith Indiana University
Aili Mari Tripp
Aili Mari Tripp University of Wisconsin–Madison
Joe Soss
Joe Soss University of Minnesota
Virginia Gray
Virginia Gray University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shelley E. Taylor
Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles
Richard V. Burkhauser
Richard V. Burkhauser Cornell University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Peter L. Berger
Peter L. Berger Boston University
Pamela Johnston Conover
Pamela Johnston Conover University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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