German Sources
Regina Becker-Schmidt and Gudrun-Axeli Knapp, eds. Das Geschlechterverhältnis als Gegenstand der Sozialwissenschaften (Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus, 1995).
Outstanding review essays on various topics, excellent bibliographies with each essay.
Regina Becker-Schmidt. "Geschlechterdifferenz--Geschlechterverhältnis: soziale Dimensionen des Begriffs Geschlecht." Frauenforschung 11:1/2 (1993).
A now-classic article in a generally very useful journal.
Petra Beckmann and Gerhard Engelbrech, Eds. "Arbeitsmarkt für Frauen 2000--Ein Schritt vor oder ein Schritt zurück?" Beiträge zur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 179 (1994).
Stats and assessments of gendered labor markets in current German situation; IAB is a non-feminist but useful source of labor force data generally.
Beiträge zur feministischen Theorie und Praxis 35 (1993). "Feminis-muß."
A periodical, organized thematically and valuable on any given subject; this is a particularly useful recent number.
Angelika Dietzinger et al., eds. Erfahrung mit Methode: Wege sozialwissenschaftlicher Frauenforschung (Freiburg: Kore, 1994).
This is volume 8 of a very useful series of collection put together by the Sektion Frauenforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, an active and stimulating group of thinkers on gender Issues. Becker-Schmidt and Knapp's volume above is number 9 in the same series.
Christine Kulke, Heidi Kopp-Degethoff, Ulrike Ramming, eds. Wider des schlichte Vergessen. Der deutsch-deutsche Einigungsprozeß. Frauen im Dialog (Berlin, 1992).
Collecting feminist social science perspectives on unification.
Barbara Schaeffer-Hegel. Vater Staat und seine Frauen: Beiträge zur politischen Theorie (Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1990).
More classic essays.
English Sources (including an immodest selection of my own work)
R.W. Connell. Masculinities (Berkeley: U of California P, 1995).
One of the key sociological theorists of gender issues addresses how that theory applies to men's lives.
Myra Marx Ferree and Elaine J. Hall. "Rethinking stratification from a feminist perspective: Gender, race and class in mainstream textbooks." American Sociological Review, forthcoming (1996).
Expands on the structural perspective on gender offered here and illustrates it with examples from introductory sociology textbooks.
Myra Marx Ferree. "Patriarchies and feminisms: The two women's movements of unified Germany." Social Politics 2:1 (1995): 10-24.
Expands the comparison of the structural bases of feminisms in East and West; a great journal for comparative studies of gender systems.
Myra Marx Ferree. "'The time of chaos was the best': The mobilization and demobilization of the women's movement in East Germany." Gender and Society 8:4 (1994): 597-623.
Looks at gender politics in terms of social movement theory; the leading journal for feminist sociology overall.
Judith Lorber. Paradoxes of Gender (New Haven: Yale UP, 1994).
Well written overview of gender theory; accessible but not condescending.
Diane Sainsbury, ed. Gendering Welfare States (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).
Some of the leading work on understanding states as gendered, excellent bibliographies too.
Dorothy Stetson and Amy Mazur, eds. Comparative State Feminism (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).
Offers data and a theoretical perspective on comparing states in terms of feminist policy-making in a dozen nations, including Germany.
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