Feminist. Inspiration. The late 1970s marks the beginning of feminist anthropology. Women's political movements in the West were strong, and many women looked to anthropology seeking the origins of women's lower status
however the anthropological literature could not provide answers.women's tasks were considered inaccessible in the archaeological/palaeoanthropological record or to male ethnographer and their roles were considered connect to their reproductive capasities (or limitations) an increasing number of publications focused on not only critiquing male dias in anthropology but developing research on women and female primates. it is in these publications such as Toward an anthropology of women that questions of gender
although only women's gender are first inventigated archaeology notably was much later than the other sub-fields of anthropology in developing feminist approaches and theorizing about gender
in a paper that was originally presented at both the american anthropological