Nancy Whittier

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Nancy Whittier is an American sociologist and a professor at Smith College. She has written many books, including Feminist Generations, Feminist Frontiers 5, and The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State.^[1]

She was born on September 16, 1966, and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. Whittier also currently holds a Sophia Smith chair at Smith College.