Bio: (1860-1945) American sociologist. Mary Roberts Coolidge was the first person to receive a full professorship in sociology in the United States at Stanford University. She studied and statistically processed data on women's poverty, studied Victorian sexuality, and was one of the founders of feminism in the United States. She believed that women and their life chances were limited by the dress code, language, and market. She fought for the right to vote for women. Coolidge also researched social security systems and believed that sociology, in addition to documenting problems and poverty, should also direct political and economic reforms. In a large study on Chinese immigration to the United States, she studied the laws and history, to give a detailed description of the racial relations between the Chinese and the wider European population in the USA. She also conducted ethnographic research on endangered native tribes in Arizona and New Mexico.

Main works

Chinese Immigration (1909);

Why Women are So (1912);

The Rain Makers: Indians of Arizona and New Mexico (1929).