had on the growth of individuals, and more precisely the effect of gender role expectations and how they stifle individual growth for both women and men. The Family (1906) was met with such back-lash she published her second book Religious Chastity (1913) under the pseudonym "John Main" as to not affect her husband, Herbert Parsons political career. Her ideas were so far ahead that only after her death did they begin to be discussed. This has led to her becoming recognized as one of the early pioneers of the feminist movement. Her writings and her lifestyle challenged conventional gender roles at the time and helped spark the conversation for gender equality. Works Early works of sociology The Family (1906) Religious Chastity (1913) The Old-Fashioned Woman (1913) Fear and Conventionality (1914) Social Freedom (1915) Social Rule (1916) Anthropology The Social Organization of the Tewa of New Mexico (1929) Hopi and Zuni Ceremonialism (1933) Pueblo Indian Religion (1939) Ethnographies Mitla: Town of the Souls (1936) Peguche (1945) Research in folklore Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands (1923) Folk-Lore of the Sea Islands, S.C. (1924) Micmac Folklore (1925) Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English (3v., 1933–1943) Reprints Parsons, Elsie Clews (1996). Pueblo Indian Religion. 2 vols. Introductions by Ramon Gutierrez and Pauline Turner Strong. Bison Books reprint. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. See also Ruth Benedict Franz Boas Cape Verdean Creole Château de la Napoule History of feminism List of Barnard College people Zora Neale Hurston Mabel Dodge Luhan Margaret Mead Pueblo clown Taos Pueblo References Further reading External links Elsie Clews Parsons Papers at the American Philosophical Society Elsie Clews Parsons, The Journal of a Feminist by Professor Catherine Lavender, City University of New York Elsie Clews Parsons, Minnesota State University, Mankato Stacy A. Cordery. "Review of Desley Deacon, Elsie Clews Parsons: Inventing Modern Life," H-Women, H-Net Reviews, November, 1998. Working Woman by Tanya Luhrmann, The New York Times 1875 births 1941 deaths American anthropologists American anthropology writers American ethnologists American women anthropologists Women ethnologists American sociologists American folklorists Women folklorists Feminist studies scholars Barnard College alumni Elsie Columbia University alumni Presidents of the American Folklore Society