Nancy Whittier

So it is perhaps no accident that in recent years, its home base of Northampton has been characterized as the most politically liberal medium-sized city in the United States, raising speculation in my mind when I read it about what the world would be like if the human community was formed and informed by the consciousness of women.

Our guest today is Nancy Whittier, Professor of Sociology at Smith College, where she has spent over three decades exploring the history of feminism, child sexual abuse and its consequences, violence against women, and the tension between liberal and conservative factions in the United States and elsewhere.

She has looked at in depth how we identify ourselves as men and women, as opposed to how society defines us, and how public policy shapes our lives in this regard for better or worse.

And today, we're gonna talk about these issues and her exploration of them.