Nancy Whittier
Biographic Data
| ID | 179394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Whittier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittier |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTIER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smith College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3931-9428 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 467 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gender, Social Movements and
Social movements are shaped by gender systems, and are also a source of social change in gender. Some social movements directly attempt to change gender relations or to redefine gender categories; these movements, particularly women's movements, have been the focus of considerable scholarship. Increasingly, scholars also recognize the gendered nature of other social movements and the impact of systemic inequalities of gender on the opportunities,…
How emotions shape feminist coalitions
This article develops a framework for conceptualizing the emotional dimensions of coalitions, with particular focus on how power operates through emotion in different varieties of feminist coalitions. The article proposes three interrelated areas in which emotion shapes feminist coalitions: (1) Feelings towards coalition partners: feelings of mistrust, anger, fear, or their reverse grow from histories of interaction and unequal power. These make …
Where Are the Children?: Theorizing the Missing Piece in Gendered Sexual Violence
Feminists have been central to virtually every era of activism around child sexual
Feminist Frontiers
Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism
Frenemies
What happens when activists who usually oppose each other work to advance similar goals? This book re-conceptualizes models of social movements’ relationships with each other and develops a new framework for understanding relationships that are neither coalitions nor countermovements. Rich, empirically grounded case studies of opposition to pornography, child sexual abuse policy, and the Violence Against Women Act show how feminists and conservat…
Opposition to Pornography: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence
Chapter 2 shows how antipornography feminists and conservatives were ideologically opposed to each other but briefly engaged with some of the same governmental bodies in the 1980s. The chapter challenges the accepted story that feminists made common cause with conservatives. It defines them as collaborative adversaries , who staked out distinct positions and collaborated covertly, each hoping to use the other to advance their own agenda. Both sid…
Identity Politics, Consciousness-Raising, and Visibility Politics
This chapter describes the emergence of consciousness-raising, including differences among women. It then discusses collective identity, explaining the concept and describing activists’ attempts to reconstruct collective identity as women and to determine how to practice their collective identity in daily life. Next, it discusses coming out and other forms of visibility politics, which aim to display collective identity and change conceptualizati…
Carceral and Intersectional Feminism in Congress: The Violence Against Women Act, Discourse, and Policy
This paper uses a materialist feminist discourse analysis to examine how women's movement organizations, liberal Democrats, and conservative Republican legislators shaped the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the consequences for intersectional and carceral feminism. Drawing on qualitative analysis of Congressional hearings, published feminist and conservative discussion of VAWA, and accounts of feminist mobilization around VAWA, I first show…
Where Are the Children: Theorizing the Missing Piece in Gendered Sexual Violence
Feminists have been central to virtually every era of activism around child sexual
The Consequences of Social Movements
Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement institutionalization. The volume makes a significant contribution to r…
Rethinking Coalitions: Anti-Pornography Feminists, Conservatives, and Relationships between Collaborative Adversarial Movements
Social movements interact in a wide range of ways, yet we have only a few concepts for thinking about these interactions: coalition, spillover, and opposition. Many social movements interact with each other as neither coalition partners nor opposing movements. In this article, I argue that we need to think more broadly and precisely about the relationships between movements and suggest a framework for conceptualizing noncoalitional interaction be…
Everyday Readers and Social Movements: Considering the Impact of The Feminine Mystique
Feminist Generations: Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
The Politics of Visibility
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse
This book studies activism against child sexual abuse, tracing it from its emergence in feminist anti‐rape efforts, through the development of mainstream self‐help, conflicts with an opposing movement, and entry into mass media and public policy. Activists sought to change their feelings about child sexual abuse, to challenge its cultural invisibility, and to gain institutional resources. Elaborating a “therapeutic politics,” activists saw tactic…
From self-help to the state: The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse
By taking a look at the vast transformation in the movement against child sexual abuse that took place from the 1970s until now, Nancy Whittier observes and explains the ways in which activists influence society
The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other
Gender, Social Movements and
Social movements are shaped by gender systems and they also are a source of social change in gender. Some social movements directly attempt to change gender relations; these movements, particularly women's movements, have been the focus of considerable scholarship. Increasingly, scholars also recognize the gendered nature of other social movements and the impact of systemic inequalities of gender on the opportunities, constraints, and forms of so…
Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest
Social movements: Identity, Culture, and the State
Emotional Strategies: The Collective Reconstruction and Display of Oppositional Emotions in the Movement against Child Sexual Abuse
This chapter draws on the case of the movement against child sexual abuse to examine how the reconstruction and expression of oppositional emotions play out in various contexts. Internal movement processes interact with external institutions, the state, and other social movements to shape emotional displays and their ramifications both within movement contexts and within external settings of media, the state, and medical institutions. Emotional d…
How Social Movements Matter
The Academic is Political is Personal: Feminists Transforming Sociology
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Gender and Social Movements: Part 2
Social Movement Spillover
Social movements are not distinct and self-contained; rather, they grow from and give birth to other movements, work in coalition with other movements, and influence each other indirectly through their effects on the larger cultural and political environment. Building on both political process and collective identity perspectives, this paper uses a case study of the women's movement's impact on U.S. peace movement activity in the 1980s to develop…
Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements
In this paper the author proposes a generational model of continuity and change in social movements. Building on political generation and cohort replacement theories, he offers three propositions about generational processes in social movements : (1) the collective identity of an activist cohort remains consistent over time, contributing to movement continuity; (2) cohorts construct different collective identities based on the external contexts a…
Rethinking Coalitions: Anti-Pornography Feminists, Conservatives, and Relationships between Collaborative Adversarial Movements
Social movements interact in a wide range of ways, yet we have only a few concepts for thinking about these interactions: coalition, spillover, and opposition. Many social movements interact with each other as neither coalition partners nor opposing movements. In this article, I argue that we need to think more broadly and precisely about the relationships between movements and suggest a framework for conceptualizing noncoalitional interaction be…
Years of the Nineteenth Amendment: An Appraisal of Women's Political Activism
Carceral and Intersectional Feminism in Congress: The Violence Against Women Act, Discourse, and Policy
This paper uses a materialist feminist discourse analysis to examine how women's movement organizations, liberal Democrats, and conservative Republican legislators shaped the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the consequences for intersectional and carceral feminism. Drawing on qualitative analysis of Congressional hearings, published feminist and conservative discussion of VAWA, and accounts of feminist mobilization around VAWA, I first show…
How emotions shape feminist coalitions
This article develops a framework for conceptualizing the emotional dimensions of coalitions, with particular focus on how power operates through emotion in different varieties of feminist coalitions. The article proposes three interrelated areas in which emotion shapes feminist coalitions: (1) Feelings towards coalition partners: feelings of mistrust, anger, fear, or their reverse grow from histories of interaction and unequal power. These make …
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Gender and Social Movements: Part 1
Where Are the Children: Theorizing the Missing Piece in Gendered Sexual Violence
Feminists have been central to virtually every era of activism around child sexual
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Gender and Social Movements: Part 2
Everyday Readers and Social Movements: Considering the Impact of The Feminine Mystique
Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest
How Social Movements Matter
Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens are Leading a New Way out of the Closet
Feminism and the Women's Movement: Dynamics of Change in Social Movement Ideology and Activism
Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens are Leading a New Way out of the Closet
Social Movement Spillover
Social movements are not distinct and self-contained; rather, they grow from and give birth to other movements, work in coalition with other movements, and influence each other indirectly through their effects on the larger cultural and political environment. Building on both political process and collective identity perspectives, this paper uses a case study of the women's movement's impact on U.S. peace movement activity in the 1980s to develop…
Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
Fierce and Tender Men: Sociological Aspects of the Men's Movement
Political Generations, Micro-Cohorts, and the Transformation of Social Movements
In this paper the author proposes a generational model of continuity and change in social movements. Building on political generation and cohort replacement theories, he offers three propositions about generational processes in social movements : (1) the collective identity of an activist cohort remains consistent over time, contributing to movement continuity; (2) cohorts construct different collective identities based on the external contexts a…
Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Gender and Social Movements: Part 1
The Academic is Political is Personal: Feminists Transforming Sociology
Guest Editors' Introduction: Special Issue on Gender and Social Movements: Part 2
Emotional Strategies: The Collective Reconstruction and Display of Oppositional Emotions in the Movement against Child Sexual Abuse
This chapter draws on the case of the movement against child sexual abuse to examine how the reconstruction and expression of oppositional emotions play out in various contexts. Internal movement processes interact with external institutions, the state, and other social movements to shape emotional displays and their ramifications both within movement contexts and within external settings of media, the state, and medical institutions. Emotional d…
How Social Movements Matter
Social movements: Identity, Culture, and the State
Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest
The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other
Gender, Social Movements and
Social movements are shaped by gender systems and they also are a source of social change in gender. Some social movements directly attempt to change gender relations; these movements, particularly women's movements, have been the focus of considerable scholarship. Increasingly, scholars also recognize the gendered nature of other social movements and the impact of systemic inequalities of gender on the opportunities, constraints, and forms of so…
The Politics of Visibility
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse
This book studies activism against child sexual abuse, tracing it from its emergence in feminist anti‐rape efforts, through the development of mainstream self‐help, conflicts with an opposing movement, and entry into mass media and public policy. Activists sought to change their feelings about child sexual abuse, to challenge its cultural invisibility, and to gain institutional resources. Elaborating a “therapeutic politics,” activists saw tactic…
From self-help to the state: The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse
By taking a look at the vast transformation in the movement against child sexual abuse that took place from the 1970s until now, Nancy Whittier observes and explains the ways in which activists influence society
Feminist Generations: Persistence of the Radical Women's Movement
Everyday Readers and Social Movements: Considering the Impact of The Feminine Mystique
Rethinking Coalitions: Anti-Pornography Feminists, Conservatives, and Relationships between Collaborative Adversarial Movements
Social movements interact in a wide range of ways, yet we have only a few concepts for thinking about these interactions: coalition, spillover, and opposition. Many social movements interact with each other as neither coalition partners nor opposing movements. In this article, I argue that we need to think more broadly and precisely about the relationships between movements and suggest a framework for conceptualizing noncoalitional interaction be…
The Consequences of Social Movements
Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement institutionalization. The volume makes a significant contribution to r…
Carceral and Intersectional Feminism in Congress: The Violence Against Women Act, Discourse, and Policy
This paper uses a materialist feminist discourse analysis to examine how women's movement organizations, liberal Democrats, and conservative Republican legislators shaped the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the consequences for intersectional and carceral feminism. Drawing on qualitative analysis of Congressional hearings, published feminist and conservative discussion of VAWA, and accounts of feminist mobilization around VAWA, I first show…
Where Are the Children: Theorizing the Missing Piece in Gendered Sexual Violence
Feminists have been central to virtually every era of activism around child sexual
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (20 works) · Politics (17 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Social movement (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Art (7 works)