The greater social respectability of the established church, in which some of Anning's gentleman geologist customers such as Buckland, Conybeare, and Sedgwick were ordained clergy, was also a factor.

In 1826, at the age of 27, Anning managed to save enough money to purchase a home with a glass store-front window for her shop, Anning's Fossil Depot.

" As time passed, Anning's confidence in her knowledge grew, and in 1839 she wrote to the Magazine of Natural History to question the claim made in an article, that a recently discovered fossil of the prehistoric shark Hybodus represented a new genus, as an error since she had discovered the existence of fossil sharks with both straight and hooked teeth many years ago.

The extract from the letter that the magazine printed was the only writing of Anning's published in the scientific literature during her lifetime.

Anning's correspondents included Charles Lyell, who wrote her to ask her opinion on how the sea was affecting the coastal cliffs around Lyme, as well as, Adam Sedgwick — one of her earliest customers — who taught geology at the University of Cambridge and who numbered Charles Darwin among his students.

Anning's first famous discovery was made shortly after her father's death.

In 1999, on the 200th anniversary of her birth, an international meeting of historians, palaeontologists, fossil collectors, and others interested in Anning's life was held in Lyme Regis.

The fact that the plesiosaur's long neck had an unprecedented 35 vertebrae raised the suspicions of the eminent French anatomist Georges Cuvier when he reviewed Anning's drawings of the second skeleton, and he wrote to Conybeare suggesting the possibility that the find was a fake produced by combining fossil bones from different kinds of animals.

Fraud was far from unknown among early 19th century fossil collectors, and if the controversy had not been resolved promptly, the accusation could have seriously damaged Anning's ability to sell fossils to other geologists.

Inspired by Mary Anning's sensational discovery of a fossilised animal resembling a huge crocodile ( later identified as an ichthyosaur ) at Lyme Regis in Dorset, Mantell became passionately interested in the study of the fossilised animals and plants found in his area.

* Duria Antiquior-' a more ancient Dorsetshire an 1830 watercolour, by Henry Thomas de la Beche, of the seas of ancient Dorset, designed to highlight Mary Anning's discoveries

Mary Anning's Window, St. Michael's Church

Vertebrate fossil finds, especially of marine reptiles, made Anning's reputation, but she made numerous other contributions to early palaeontology.

Anning's discoveries became key pieces of evidence for extinction.

Forde and his The Heroine of Lyme Regis: The Story of Mary Anning the Celebrated Geologist ( 1925 ), a number of writers saw Anning's life as inspirational.

The museum, built on the site of paelontologist Mary Anning's birthplace and family shop off Bridge Street, houses a large collection of local memorabilia, historical items and exhibits explaining the local geological and palaeontological treasures.

Latour suggests that about 90 % of contemporary social criticism in academia displays one of two approaches which he terms “ the fact position and the fairy position .” ( p. 237 ) The fact position is anti-fetishist, arguing that “ objects of belief ” ( e. g., religion, arts ) are merely concepts onto which power is projected ; the “ fairy position ” argues that individuals are dominated, often covertly and without their awareness, by external forces ( e. g., economics, gender ).

Nearly every human society throughout history has expected distinctions to be made between males and females by the style, color, or type of clothing they are expected to wear, and likewise most societies have had a set of social norms, views, guidelines, or even laws defining what type of clothing is appropriate for each gender.

Feminist advocacy for social change has done much to relax the constrictions of gender roles on men and women, but they are still heavily policed.

Confucianism " largely defined the mainstream discourse on gender in China from the Han dynasty onward ," and its strict, obligatory gender roles as a cornerstone of family, and thus, societal stability, continue to shape social life throughout East Asia.

In combination with other aspects, theatrical costumes can help actors portray characters ' age, gender role, profession, social class, personality, ethnicity, and even information about the historical period / era, geographic location and time of day, as well as the season or weather of the theatrical performance.

Her Eleusinian mysteries were open to initiates of any gender or social class.

Though gender discrimination and sexism refers to beliefs and attitudes in relation to the gender of a person, such beliefs and attitudes are of a social nature and do not, normally, carry any legal consequences.

Feminist theory, which emerged from these feminist movements, aims to understand the nature of gender inequality by examining women's social roles and lived experience ; it has developed theories in a variety of disciplines in order to respond to issues such as the social construction of sex and gender.

Feminist theory has explored the social construction of masculinity and its implications for the goal of gender equality.

The social construct of masculinity is seen by feminism as problematic because it associates males with aggression and competition, and reinforces patriarchal and unequal gender relations.

However, some argue that while male engagement with feminism is necessary, it is problematic due to the ingrained social influences of patriarchy in gender relations.

Feminist science fiction poses questions about social issues such as how society constructs gender roles, the role reproduction plays in defining gender and the unequal political and personal power of men and women.

Feminist science fiction is sometimes taught at the university level to explore the role of social constructs in understanding gender.

Islamic feminists advocate women's rights, gender equality, and social justice grounded in an Islamic framework.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender social movements share inter-related goals of social acceptance of sexual and gender minorities.

In crime and law, hate crimes ( also known as bias-motivated crimes ) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, sex, or gender identity.

Some critics, particularly those interested in gender studies, have explored the existence of male-dominant social structures in Melville's fiction.

A person may identify himself with any number of social, geographic, economic, racial, religious, familial, educational, gender, political, and sports groups.

Her paintings reflect the 19th-century cultural restrictions of her class and gender.

A Hindu's dharma is affected by the person's age, caste, class, occupation, and gender.

Throughout the world, the novel is received for its cross-cultural, universal themes: war, love, death, racial conflict, class, gender and generation, which speak especially to women.

In these languages, there is a high but not absolute correlation between grammatical gender and declensional class.

As a reflection of categories of sexuality so sharply defined by the government and society at large, lesbian subculture developed extremely rigid gender roles between women, particularly among the working class in the U. S. and Canada.

Workers ' solidarity means that anarcho-syndicalists believe all workers — no matter their race, gender, or ethnic group — are in a similar situation in regard to their boss ( class consciousness ).

In many instances life expectancy varied considerably according to class and gender.

Some authors use the term " grammatical gender " as a synonym of " noun class ", but others use different definitions for each ( see below ).

When noun class is expressed on other parts of speech, besides nouns and pronouns, the language is said to have grammatical gender.

The category of nominal class replaces not only the category of gender, but also the categories of number and case.

* Entrenched belief systems, reliance of tradition ( including religion, family values, cultural expectations, class politics, gender roles, etc.

Moreover, the commentators claimed there never was a “ Political Correctness movement ” in the US, and that many who use the term do so to distract attention from substantive debate about racial, class and gender discrimination and unequal legal treatment.

Instead, an individual comprises tensions between conflicting knowledge claims ( e. g. gender, race, class, profession, etc .).

Radical feminists locate the root cause of women's oppression in patriarchal gender relations, as opposed to legal systems ( as in liberal feminism ) or class conflict ( as in socialist feminism and Marxist feminism ).

These other categories of oppression may include, but are not limited to, oppression based on gender identity, race, social class, perceived attractiveness, sexual orientation, and ability.

Ellen Willis hypothesized in 1984 that this was, at least in part, because " most black and working-class women could not accept the abstraction of feminist issues from race and class issues "; the resulting narrow demographic base, in turn, limited the validity of generalizations based on radical feminists ' personal experiences of gender relations.

Other critics of radical feminism from the political left, including socialist feminists, strongly disagree with the radical feminist position that the oppression of women is fundamental to all other forms of oppression ; these critics hold that issues of race and of class are as important or more important than issues about gender.

After the Stonewall riots, gays and lesbians in New York City faced gender, class, and generational obstacles to becoming a cohesive community.

Professor Susan Stryker classifies the Compton's Cafeteria riot as an " act of antitransgender discrimination, rather than an act of discrimination against sexual orientation " and connects the uprising to the issues of gender, race, and class that were being downplayed by homophile organizations.

Race, class, ideology, and gender became frequent obstacles in the years after the riots.

Jackson ( 2000 ) argues that Hurston's meditation on abjection, waste, and the construction of class and gender identities among poor whites reflects the eugenics discourses of the 1920s.

Morphologically Vedda language word class is divided into nouns, verbs and invariables with unique gender distinctions in animate nouns.