History Timeline: 1987-1988

• Minor in Women's Studies is available to MIT students
• Program Director: Isabelle de Courtivron
  Program Coordinator: Barbara Schulman
• Readings by Writer Grace Paley, Social Activist Toni Cade Bambara
• Child Sexual Abuse and the Media Forum
• Gender and Planning Conference
• "Literary Conversations" for Women Faculty, MIT Prof. Ruth Perry
• Talks:
  • "Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy" NYU Prof. Muriel Dimen
  • "Women and the Honduran Peasant Movement" Elvia Alvarado Galo
  • "The Politics of Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature, MIT Prof. Ruth Perry
  • "Feminism, Reproductive Technologies and the Social Control of Women" Williams College Prof. Jana Sawicki
  • "The Bogey of Western Feminism in the Third World" Univ. of Colombo Prof. Kumari Jayawardena
  • "Gender and French Revolution" Writer Olwen Hufton
  • "Effects of Equal Opportunity Legislation on Blacks and Women" UNM Prof. Barbara Bergman
  • "Gender, Technology and Development" Watson Inst. of International Studies Prof. Kay Warren
• Multiple Exposures Film Series
• Contemporary Animation by Women Film
• Film screenings: "Las Madres"