History Timeline: 1988-1989

• WS Program receives Irwin Sizer Award for Most Significant Improvement to MIT
• Pursuing a Career in Science and Technology Workshop Series
• Registration Day Alternative Film Screening
• Black Women Writers: Texts and Critics Series: Univ. of Virginia Prof. Deborah McDowell and Univ. of Wisconsin Prof. Nellie McKay
• Women & Politics Annual Series: Margarita Michie, Dr. Anita Nesiah, Pres. of EDK Ethel Klein, UCSD Prof. Rebecca Klatch, Univ. of Chicago Prof. Cass Sunstein, and Harper's Editor Barbara Ehrenreich
• Talks:
  • "Women Who Kill" Writer Nicole Ward Jouve
  • "Latin American Women" speakers from Nicaragua and Costa Rica
  • "Politics of Development and Its Impact on Cultural Work" Poet Honor Ford-Smith
  • "Killing Patriarchy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Murder Mystery and Post- Feminism" Concordia Univ. Prof. Lillian Robinson
  • "Women and Islamic Fundamentalism in the Arab World" Writer Fatima Mernissi
  • "Feminism in the Third World"
  • "Gender, Race, and Class in Contemporary Thought"
  • "Race, Gender and Trade Unions in South Africa" Inst. for Research on Women Prof. Iris Berger
  • "Women in India" Writer Renana Jhabvala