On March 5, Nancy Whittier will present the second lecture in this semester’s CPPA Faculty Colloquium Series during a talk titled “Social Movement Coalitions with and within the State: Discourse, Policy and the Violence Against Women Act.”
Whittier is a sociology professor at Smith College. Her research examines the contributions of social movements 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. Whittier’s latest book, The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Feminism, Social Movements, and the Therapeutic State (Oxford University Press, 2009), received the 2010 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements. Whittier 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.
This and all lectures in the series will be in Thompson 620, from noon to 1 p.m. The talks are free, and brown bag lunches are welcome.