Francesca Polletta

Francesca Polletta will work on three projects investigating the cultural impacts of social movements. The first project will investigate how news coverage of the feminist movement impacted women’s beliefs about gender. The second project will examine how popular women’s magazines discussed the women’s liberation movement and how treatment of the movement affected American’s attitudes on gender. The third project will explore the different ways movements are presented in the news—for example, as a protest or a trend—as well as the causes and consequences of movements being represented in various ways.