Co-Sponsored by NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change

 

April 23, 2009

 

 

Michelle Goldberg discussed the global war on women’s reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development.

 

She recently published The Means of Reproduction: How Women’s Freedom Will Determine the World’s Future. In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century. The Means of Reproduction travels through four continents, examining issues such as abortion, female circumcision, and Asia’s missing girls to show how the battle over women’s bodies has been globalized and how, too often, the United States has joined sworn enemies such as Iran and Sudan in an axis of repression.

 

Michelle Goldberg is an investigative journalist and the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, a New York Times bestseller that was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. A former senior writer at Salon.com, Goldberg has written for Glamour, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Guardian (UK), and many other publications, and she has taught at New York University’s graduate school of journalism. The Means of Reproduction won the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award.