History Timeline: 1991-1992

• Black Women Writers Annual Speaker Series: Novelist Ann Petry, Brown Prof. Joy James, and Writer Elizabeth Hadley Freydberg
• Women & Politic Annual Series: NYU Prof. Linda Gordon, Northeastern Prof. Margaret Burnham, Rutgers Univ. Prof. Ann Lane, Univ. of Florida Prof. Luise White, Columbia Prof. Patricia Williams, and Harvard Prof. Gita Sen
• Oral History in Action Seminar
• Race, Gender and Ethnicity in US Politics Seminar Series
• Engendering Environmental Thinking Symposium
• Readings:
  • "Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th Century America," Lesbian Historian Lillian Faderman
• Talks:
  • "Straight Out of Hollywood: Thelma and Louise, Spike and Annabelle" Writer Lillian S. Robinson
  • "Deconstructing the Campaign Against Political Correctness" Inst. for Advanced Study Prof. Joan Wallach Scott
  • "The 'Women Question' in Revolutionary Practice: The Russian & Chinese Communist Parties in the 1920s" Chris Gilmartin and MIT Prof. Elizabeth Wood
  • "From the 'Women Question' to Women's Studies: Defining a New Discipline in China Today" Dalian Univ. Prof. Li Xiaojiang and Dr. Delia Davin
  • "What is Feminism?" Panel Discussion: MIT Visiting Prof. Jill Ker Conway, Dr. Jacqui Alexander, and Yale Prof. Yukiko Hanawa
  • "Women in Japanese Workforce" Writer Yasuko Muramatsu
  • "Out for Laughs: A Wild Night of Women's Comedy" Karen Williams, Janice Perry, & Betsy Salkind
  • "Sexing the Body: Female/Male Anatomy in Human Evolution" UC Berkeley Prof. Adrienne Zihlman
• Film Screenings:
  • "Black Women Filmmakers: Vision and Image"
  • "The Bombing of Osage Avenue" by Social Activist Toni Cade Bambara
  • "Third World Women Filmmakers" Film Festival
  • "Liberation and Alienation in Algerian Cinema" film series
  • "Films by Asian American Women Filmmakers"
  • "Unveiling Eve: Women's History in the Middle East"