Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power

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WEEK #	TOPICS
1	Science, power, and social responsibility (PDF)
2	Nuclear weapons and gender (PDF)
3	The Nuclear Freeze campaign and the role of organizers (PDF)
4	The birth of environmentalism (PDF)
5	Climate change (PDF)
6	The Civil Rights movement (PDF)
7	Vietnam War protests by scientists (PDF)
8	The March 4 movement, the founding of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the fate of MIT’s Special Laboratories (PDF)
9	Concerns about genetic engineering (PDF)
10	The status of women in science (PDF)
11	Intersectional feminism (PDF)
12	Student activism at MIT, 1980s to present (PDF)