Usually researchers on the women’s movement treat either the first or the second wave movement. The classic overview is provided by Morgan (1984).

Literature on the early women’s movement is exhaustive; for an international dimension see Rupp (1997); for a national overview on the French case see Riot-Sarcey (2002), for Germany Gerhard (1990) and Wischermann (2003).

Some works focus on the old and on the new movement, as Ryan (1992), or on the in-between, as Chaperon (2000). Gubin et al. (2004) provide an excellent reader on transversal issues of feminism. The new women’s movement is still a new field of historical analysis, though sociologists and anthropologists started earlier; see, for instance, Picq (1993).

For a first overview of the international dimension, turn to Dahlerup (1986) and Smith (2000). From a comparative point of view, see Apostolidou (1995), Rucht (1994), and Schulz (2002).

• Apostolidou, Natascha. Die neue Frauenbewegung in der BRD und Griechenland. Frankfurt: Helmer, 1995.
• Chaperon, Sylvie. Les années Beauvoir: 1945–1970. Paris: Fayard, 2000.
• Dahlerup, Drude, ed. The New Women’s Movement: Feminism and Political Power in Europe and the USA. London: Sage, 1986.
• Dardel, Julie de: Révolution sexuelle et mouvement de libération de femmes à Gèneve (1970-77), Lausanne: Antipodes, 2007.
• Gerhard, Ute. Unerhört: Die Geschichte der deutschen Frauenbewegung. Reinbek/Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1990.
• Gubin, Eliane et al., ed. Le siècle des feminisms. Paris: Les éditions de l’atelier, 2004.
• Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood is Global: The International Women’s Movement Anthology. New York: Anchor Books, 1984.
• Riot-Sarcey, Michèle. Histoire du feminism. Paris: La Découverte, 2002.
• Rucht, Dieter. Modernisierung und neue soziale Bewegungen. Deutschland, Frankreich und USA im Vergleich. Frankfurt: Campus, 1994.
• Rupp, Leila. Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement. Princeton, NJ: University Press, 1997.
• Ryan, Barbara. Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism. New York: Routledge, 1992.
• Schulz, Kristina. Der lange Atem der Provokation: Die Frauenbewegung in der Bundesrepublik und in Frankreich 1968–1976. Frankfurt: Campus, 2002.
• Schulz, Kristina (Ed.): Neue Frauenbewegung in der Schweiz, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 57 (2007), 3.
• Smith, Bonnie G., ed. Global Feminisms Since 1945. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Wischermann, Ursula. Frauenbewegung und Öffentlichkeiten um 1900: Netzwerke. Gegenöffentlichkeiten. Protestinszenierungen. Frankfurt: Helmer, 2003.