Our Science Ourselves

Our Science Ourselves: How Gender, Race, and Social Movements Shaped the Study of Science tells the story of a trailblazing network of feminist scientists in the Boston area in the United States in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Inspired by the women’s movement, they wrote about stereotypes and bias and developed feminist and anti-racist critiques of science. The work of these visionary women – Rita Arditti, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Evelynn Fox Keller, Evelynn Hammonds, Ruth Hubbard, Banu Subramaniam – seeded the discipline of feminist science studies. It continues to be inspiring today at a time when the US administration is leading an attack on science, and an onslaught on scholarship related to gender and race.

This event will feature a presentation by the book’s author, Christa Kuljian, followed by discussion facilitated by Anne Pollock, and a chance to continue the conversation about history and the present over a drinks reception.

About the Author

Christa Kuljian is a historian of science and a science writer. In addition to Our Science Ourselves, published by the University of Massachusetts Press, she is the author of two previous books – Sanctuary and Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins (both published by Jacana Media). Christa is a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.

About the Moderator

Anne Pollock is a feminist science and technology studies scholar and social scientist of health and medicine. Previously a member of the Lead Editorial Team of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, she is author of multiple books, most recently Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States, and co-author with Nadine Ehlers, Anthony Ryan Hatch, and Amade Aouatef M’charek of The Racial Cage (both published by University of Minnesota). She is a professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London.