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The Means of Reproduction

Date: June 9, 2009

Time: 12:00 PM

220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
New York NY 10001

Women's rights are often treated as mere appendages to great questions of war, peace, poverty and economic development. However, effective solutions to larger issues of poverty, environmental degradation, and security depend on ensuring the rights and status of women throughout the world.

Join Demos and the World Policy Institute for a lunchtime discussion with Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World. In a groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of the world. She travels through four continents, examining issues such as abortion, female circumcision, and Asia's missing girls. Reporting with unique insight from both the rarefied realm of international policy and from individual women's lives, Goldberg’s exposé of the economic, demographic, and health consequences of women's oppression shows convincingly that the emancipation of women is the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century.

About the Author:

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.

About the Moderator:

Michele Wucker is Executive Director of the World Policy Institute. Wucker specializes in the economics and politics of migration; the global economy, especially emerging markets; and Latin America. She is the author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs, 2006/2007) and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (Hill & Wang, 1999/2000). She is a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and the American Council on Germany, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Authors Guild, and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

Registration Information:

Regular Admission - $15 for lunch or $30 for lunch AND a copy of The Means of Reproduction (list price $25.95).

Academics & Nonprofit Professionals - $10 for lunch or $25 for lunch and a copy of the book.

Full-time Students - $5 for lunch or $20 for lunch and a copy of the book.

A limited number of books will be available for purchase on the day of the event for $20.

To RSVP for this event, please contact Jinny Khanduja at jkhanduja@demos.org or 212.389.1399 or register below. Registration is required by Monday, June 8th.

With: David Callahan | Linda Tarr-Whelan

Tags: Women's Leadership Initiative