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Myra Marx Ferree

Professor Myra Marx Ferree is the Alice H. Cook Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former member of the Gender and Women’s Studies Department. She is the author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics In Global Perspective (2012), translated as Feminismen, co-published by Campus and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (2018). Her pioneer study (with co-authors) Shaping Abortion Discourse (2002) compared West German and US politics. In addition to numerous articles about gender theory, family change, feminist organizations and politics in the US, Germany and internationally, Ferree is the co-author with Lisa Wade of a best-selling textbook Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (3rd edition, 2023).