The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World
Former Salon.com writer Michelle Goldberg has recently released a new book investigating the international battle over women’s reproductive rights. Through cultural analysis and deep reporting, Goldberg looks at how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the 21st Century. The Means of Reproduction travels through four continents, examining issues like abortion, female genital mutilation and Asia’s missing girls to show how the battle over women’s bodies has been globalized, and how the United States has, depending on who is in power, alternately advanced and impeded women’s rights worldwide.The book mentions some of the Center’s key legal challenges around the world such as K.L. v. Peru and Tysiac v. Poland and their importance in the struggle for women’s reproductive freedom worldwide. Read New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof’s review in his blog On the Ground >,Want to hear the author Michelle Goldberg speak about her book?Attend The Means of Reproduction book party in New York City on June 9 >,