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Show Notes

Nancy Whittier

Sophia Smith Professor and Professor of Sociology

https://www.smith.edu/people/nancy-whittier

Feminist Generations: The Persistence of the Radical Women’s Movement, Temple University Press, 2010.

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9434/

The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Emotion, Social Movements, and the State, Oxford University Press, 2010.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-politics-of-child-sexual-abuse-9780199783311?lang=en&cc=us

Frenemies: Feminists, Conservatives, and Sexual Violence, Oxford University Press, 2018.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/frenemies-9780190236007?q=nancy%20whittier&lang=en&cc=us

Sally J. Kenney.  “Where is Gender in Agenda Setting?” Women and Politics. 25(1-2): 179-207, 2003. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J014v25n01_07

Sally J. Kenney.  “Mobilizing Emotions to Elect Women: the symbolic meaning of Minnesota’s first woman Supreme Court justice.” Mobilization: An International Journal. 15(2): 135-158 (2010). https://meridian.allenpress.com/mobilization/article/15/2/135/82361/Mobilizing-Emotions-toElect-Women-The-Symbolic

Rose Corrigan.
Up Against the Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success.  New York University Press, 2013.

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/21723/

On My Honor: The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America
by Kim Christensen.  New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2025.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-christensen/on-my-honor/9781538726754/?lens=grand-central-publishing

Feminist Organizations: Harvest of the New Women’s Movement, edited by Myra Marx Ferree and Patricia Yancey Martin, Temple University Press, 1995.

https://muse.jhu.edu/book/9792

Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and the Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Little, Brown and Company 2019.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page/ronan-farrow-catch-and-kill/

Meghan Twohey and Jodi Kantor,

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement, Penguin, 2017.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586563/she-said-by-jodi-kantor-and-megan-twohey/

Abducted in Plain Sight
Jan Broberg is a Mormon survivor, abducted by a family friend and neighbor and the subject of the documentary, Abducted in Plain Sight.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3444312/

What is a Girl Worth: One Woman’s Courageous Battle to Protect the Innocent and Stop a Predator — No Matter the Cost.
Rachel Denhollander

Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

https://www.tyndale.com/p/what-is-a-girl-worth/9781496441348

Sally J. Kenney.  “Backlash Against Feminism: Rethinking a Loaded Concept.” In The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States, ed. Deborah L. Brake, Martha Chamallas, and Verna L. Williams, Oxford University Press, 313-31 (2023).  https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197519998.001.0001/oxfordhb9780197519998

The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.

Ellen Bass and Laura Davis.

New York: Harper Collins, 1991.
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-courage-to-heal-ellen-basslaura-davis?variant=32111972122658

U.S. v. Morrison, 529 U.S. 598 (2000).

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1999/99-5

Making Trouble

John D’Emilio.  “After Stonewall,” in Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University.  New York: Routledge, 1992.

Fred Strebeigh discusses the role of Catharine MacKinnon in the underlying theory of the civil rights remedy in the Violence Against Women Act in Equal: Women Reshape American Law.  W.W. Norton, 2009.  Whittier discusses her role in the antipornography movement in Frenemies.

Chanel Miller video, I Am With You, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouIxvBMF7Rw

In Season One of In the Dark Madeleine Baran investigates the abduction and murder of Jacob Wetterling.  https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/in-the-dark/season-1-of-in-the-dark.

https://floridaactioncommittee.org/patty-wetterling-and-the-highjacking-of-the-sex-offender-registry/