Professor Myra Marx Ferree is the Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, where she is also a member of the Women’s Studies Program. Her current work focuses on comparisons between US and German feminist movements and gender policy developments since the 1960s as well as the development of feminist identities in transnational women’s organizations.

In 2005 she was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and in 2004 the Maria-Jahoda Visiting Professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. She has written numerous articles about feminist organizations and politics in the US, Germany and internationally, as well as about gender inequality in families, the inclusion of gender in sociological theory and practice, and the intersections of gender with race and class.
She has been the recipient of the Jessie Bernard Award (sociology’s highest honor for work in gender), vice-president of the American Sociological Association and deputy editor of its leading journal, president of Sociologists for Women in Society and recipient of its mentoring and feminist scholarship awards. 

Some of her more recent publications include: (links to pdf)

Books:

• Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights (2006, New York University Press) edited with Aili Mari Tripp
• Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the Public Sphere in Germany and the United States (2001, Cambridge University Press) with William Anthony Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards, and Dieter Rucht.
• Controversy and Coalition: The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change (2000, Routledge) with Beth Hess
• Revisioning Gender (1998, Alta Mira Press) edited with Judith Lorber and Beth Hess
• Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women's Movement (1995, Temple University Press) edited with Patricia Yancey Martin

Articles:

• Ferree Myra Marx and Hae Yeon Choo. (forthcoming). “Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities”, Sociological Theory.
• Rottman Susan B. and Myra Marx Ferree (2008). “Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Anti-discrimination Laws", Social Politics 15(4): 481-513.
• Christensen Wendy M. and Ferree Myra Marx (2008). "Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate", Qualitative Sociology: Special Issue on Political Violence 31(3), 287-306.
• Ferree Myra Marx (2006). "Angela Merkel: What Does it Mean to Run as a Woman?", in German Politics and Society (special issue on Bundestag 2005 elections) 24(1): 93-107. 
• Brown Jessica Autumn and Ferree Myra Marx (2005). "Close Your Eyes and Think of England: Pronatalism in the British Print Media", Gender & Society 19(1): 5-24.
• Ferree Myra Marx (2009). “The discursive politics of feminist intersectionality”. In Lutz Helma, et al. (2009). Intersectional Analysis. Frankfurt a/M.
• Ferree Myra Marx (2009). “An American Roadmap to Equality? Framing Feminist Goals in a Liberal Landscape”. In: Gornick Janet and Meyers Marcia (eds.) (2009). Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions. NY: Polity Press.
• Ferree Myra Marx (2009). "Inequality, Intersectionality and the Politics of Discourse: Framing Feminist Alliances", in Lombardo Emanuela, Meier Petra and Verloo Mieke (eds.). The Discursive Politics of Gender Equality: Stretching, Bending and Policy-Making. Routledge. 
• Ferree Myra Marx (2007). "Framing Equality: The Politics of Race, Class, Gender in the US, Germany, and the Expanding European Union". In Roth, S. (ed.). The Gender Politics of the European Union. Berghahn Publishers.