OUR SCIENCE OURSELVES by Christa Kuljian

OUR SCIENCE OURSELVES
How Gender, Race, and Social Movements shaped the study of Science

by Christa Kuljian

Our Science, Ourselves tells the life stories of seven women scientists in the Boston area in the 1970s, 80s and 90s who were shaped by the women’s movement, and who developed feminist and anti-racist critiques of science. These include Harvard biologist Ruth Hubbard, geneticist Rita Arditti who was an active member of Science for the People, and physicist and historian of science Evelyn Fox Keller. The book focuses on a younger generation of feminist scientists as well, including Evelynn Hammonds, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Banu Subramaniam, and explores the impact of the Boston-based Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde on their thinking. The book also weaves in the story of biologist Nancy Hopkins who avoided feminism until after she published the MIT Report on Women in Science in 1999. The book investigates the origins of feminist science studies in the US.   

Christa Kuljian is a science writer who is the author of two other books - Sanctuary (Jacana 2013) and Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins (Jacana 2016). Currently, she is a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at Wits University.   

Christa Kuljian will be in conversation with Makhosazana Xaba.

Drinks and snacks will be served

Thursday, 14^th November 2024
6pm
WiSER Seminar Room

6^th Floor, Richard Ward Building,

East Campus, Wits University

RSVP: Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za
 

“Book Discussions at WiSER are convened and co-ordinated by Sarah Nuttall and Najibha Deshmukh”.