Politics,Sex&COCKTAILS
october 11, 2009
montecito country club

featuring keynote speaker
Michelle Goldberg
author of the new book
The Means of Reproduction:
Sex, Power, and the Future of the World

 

calling all activists, feminists, humanists, human rights advocates, environmentalists, economists, politicians, and all who care about the future of the world

 

For many women around the world, the choice of when to marry, when to have sex, or when and how many children she will have is outside her control. Denied access to healthcare, family planning, and safe abortion, women bear the brunt of disease, malnutrition, poverty and violence.

In her provocative new book, THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION: Sex, Power,and the Future of the World, Michelle Goldberg makes the argument that the bedrock of many of the world’s most pressing issues—national security, population control, poverty, human rights, religious conflict—can be tied to the question of whocontrols a woman’s body.

Going far beyond the polarizing issue of abortion, Goldberg looks at a broad spectrum of human rights issues—sex trafficking, genital mutilation, child brides, female infanticide—and explains why addressing these issues is the first step in overcoming global ills.

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