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Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on women's reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global development, as described in her new work, The Means of Reproduction: How Women's Freedom Will Determine the World's Future. In this work of investigative journalism, Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the 21st century.

Goldberg discusses how 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.

Co-sponsored by NARAL and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change.

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.