Our Science, Ourselves tells the story of a trailblazing network of women scientists in the Boston area in the 1970s, 80s and 90s including Ruth Hubbard, Rita Arditti, Evelyn Fox Keller, Evelynn Hammonds, Anne Fausto-Sterling, and Banu Subramaniam. Inspired by the social and political activism of the women’s movement, and organizations like Science for the People and the Combahee River Collective, they began writing and teaching about women in science, gender and science, and sexist and racist bias and exclusion. The book tells the origin story of feminist science studies. It also weaves in the contributions of scientist Nancy Hopkins, initially a reluctant feminist, who is a Lexington resident.

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Christa Kuljian is a historian of science, science writer, and the author of two previous books – Sanctuary and Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins (both published with Jacana Media).  Darwin’s Hunch was short listed for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction. Originally from the Boston area, Kuljian was in the Lexington High School Class of 1980. She has lived in Johannesburg, South Africa for over 30 years and is currently a Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at Wits University. In addition to her undergraduate degree in the History of Science from Harvard, she holds a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton (1989) and an MA in Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand (2007).

Presented in collaboration with multiple libraries across Massachusetts.