In all four fields of anthropology (Cultural, Archaeology, Linguistics, and Physical Anthropology) women have made significant contributions to establishment and growth of the field. In addition to providing role models for future generations, the earliest women in the field pioneered pivotal studies, generating new questions and venues for research. The discussion of women in anthropology
Images of women in the media have presented a serious problem and challenge to feminist activists and scholars concerned about women’s status in society. In the US in particular, but also in other parts of the world, the type, quality, and number of images of women in various fictional and nonfictional genres (in film, television
Women in law enforcement work in municipal agencies, state agencies, or federal agencies. Municipal agencies include city, county, and campus law enforcement. State agencies include state police, vehicle enforcement, highway patrol, and other state specialty organizations such as state bureaus of investigations or multipurpose organizations such as the Texas Rangers. Federal agencies include specialty organizations
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Women and religion, women’s religious commitments, ideals, and involvement are increasingly of interest to sociologists within both the sociology of religion and other fields. While early research on religion focused on the origins, functions, meaning, and measurement of religion, the past few decades have witnessed a burgeoning interest in women s spirituality, the involvement of
The Violence against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 was the first and most comprehensive federal legislation to address violence against women in the history of the United States. Although some federal legislation was passed prior to VAWA to address privacy issues for rape victims, fund battered women’s shelters, and compensate crime victims, many people recognized
From adolescence through to motherhood, menopause, and old age, women undergo many life changes. Throughout, yoga helps women to strengthen both body and mind and create a state of balance and harmony. At each stage of a woman’s life, her body undergoes physical and psychological changes. The practice of yoga can be modified and adapted to
The history and present status of women in science are of interest to sociologists because of the longstanding disparities in women’s and men’s relative rank and levels of productivity in science, but also because of the male domination of the sciences as a whole. A range of psychological, structural, and cultural explanations have been developed
Since the 1990s, there has been a growing interest in the battered woman and the violence that permeates her life. Battering is a difficult topic, because it exists in the privacy of the family home, grows in silence and shame, and has historically been acceptable and even expected from male heads of households. In reality
From a sociological feminist perspective, a battering relationship is one of captivity, and battered women are survivors of terror. Battering is an obsessive campaign of coercion and intimidation designed by a man to dominate and control a woman, which occurs in the personal context of intimacy and thrives in the sociopolitical climate of patriarchy. For