|  Nancy
Whittier
Associate Professor
Nancy Whittier holds a BA
in Women's Studies and a PhD. in Sociology from Ohio State University
. Her areas of interest focus on the sociology of gender, social movements,
and women's movements.
Her research examines the contributions of social movements to changesin
public policy to changes in public policy and culture, the construction
of collective identity in social movements, connections between cultural
and institutional social change, and transformations in feminism over
the past 30 years. She is the author of The Politics of Child
Sexual Abuse: Feminism, Social Movements, And The Therapeutic State
(Oxford University Press, expected publication 2008); Feminist Generations:
The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement (Temple University Press,
1995), which examines questions of political generations among feminists
and lesbian feminists, and the development of the U.S. radical feminist
and lesbian feminist movements from the 1960s to the 1990s. She is co-editor
of Feminist Frontiers, an anthology in the sociology of gender, and
of Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State, which focuses
on new directions in social movement theory. She has published articles
on emotions and protest, political generations in social movements,
the impact of social movements on each other, and collective identity
and culture in social movements, and co-edited two special issues of
the journal Gender & Society on gender and social movements (Dec.
1998 and Feb. 1999).
Nancy Whittier teaches courses on gender (Sociology 229, Sex and Gender
in American Society; Sociology 323, Seminar: Gender and Social Change),
introductory sociology, and Evaluating Information (Sociology 201).
She lives with her partner, Kate Weigand, who is an historian, and their
children Jonah, Eva, and Isaac.
Phone: 413-585-3524
Office Location: 10 Prospect Street, #203
Office Hours: T 2:30-3:30, W 3:00-4:00, and by appt.
Email: nwhittie@email.smith.edu
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