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Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Penguin Press
April 2009
On Sale: April 2, 2009
272 pages
ISBN: 1594202087
EAN: 9781594202087
Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism by
the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming,
Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women’s
reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported
consequences for the future of global development Women’s rights are often treated as mere appendages to
great questions of war, peace, poverty, and economic
development. But as networks of religious fundamentalists,
feminists, and bureaucrats struggle to remake sexual and
childbearing norms worldwide, the battle to control women’s
bodies has become a high-stakes enterprise, with the United
States often supporting the most reactionary forces. In a work of incisive cultural analysis and deep reporting,
Michelle 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. Reporting with
unique insight from both the rarefied realm of
international policy and from individual women’s lives,
Goldberg elucidates the economic, demographic, and health
consequences of women’s oppression, which affect more than
half the world’s population. As The Means of Reproduction reveals, the conflict between
self-determination and patriarchal tradition has come to
define pressing questions of global development. Empowering
women is the key to retarding the progress of AIDS, curbing
overpopulation, and helping the third world climb out of
poverty, but attempts to improve women’s status elicit
fierce opposition from conservatives who see women’s
submission as key to their own national or religious
identity. From the anticommunist genesis of America’s attempts to
stem population growth in poor countries to the current
worldwide attack on women’s rights as a decadent Western
imposition, Goldberg explores the interplay between the
great issues of our time and the politics of sex and
childbearing. Finally, The Means of Reproduction shows how
women, strengthened by a solidarity that transcends
borders, are fighting for freedom.
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