The Association for Feminist Anthropology, also referred to as AFA is a subdivision of Anthropology that caught my attention. The AFA states on their website http://afa.americananthro.org/ that the associations goal is to aid in fostering development towards feminist analytical perspectives in every dimension of anthropology. AFA founder Sylvia Forman presented the idea of “working commissions” a tool to link feminist academics to one another and policy work. The three subjects focused on are woman’s body control rights, women and human rights and women’s reproductive rights. Others important matters the AFA has supported are equality, childcare, unemployment’s and educations, those are just some things, but the list surely goes on.

The broader themes of anthropology focus on human behaviors and interactions throughout the past and present. Anthropology explores social behaviors, cultural norms, language and physicality in the goal of understanding human development. The treatment and acceptance of women all over the world has a direct effect on the environment, culture norms, social norms and development in any place women are around the world. We live in a world were human are always having to interact with others and therefore it relates directly to the overall broader themes of anthropology

I myself found the AFA to be interesting and worth exploring because of how much women rights has a direct impact on a group of people. For example, lack of female sex education and or access to health clinics and birth control can directly affect the population growth of the rate of sexually transmitted daises and can break down the foundation of societies. Another example would be the types of programs that receive funding in a given community based on the number of females in or not in power. As a Political science we learned that when females hole political power programs that give long term stability are often funded and result in a more stable community. Programs such as health care, food assistance, educations and other programs the fund the betterment of the citizens.

As I continued to explore the AFA website some of the things I came across in the resources tab on the website were links to a few pretty cool outlets to help educate people on the current development on women around the world. Many of the resources and links were interesting and showed focus on a variety of the challenge’s women face from different parts of the world. One of the links sent me to the site WomensENews.com One of them that caught my attention was written by an editor from the website page. “Nasreen Sheikh: From an unremarkable birth to e remarkable life” It focused on a young oppressed woman in a very oppressive community toward females and how she used her talents to empower women socially and economically to escape abusive relationships. The AFA website also offers a tab of visual blogs captured by members with pictures and captions capturing women, protest and hardships around the world. I think visuals are important in really capturing the what challenges are being dealt with outside of words.