TY  - BOOK
N2  - Investigative journalist 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. Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the 21st century. 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 publisher description.
AB  - Investigative journalist 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. Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the 21st century. 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 publisher description.
T1  - The means of reproduction :sex, power, and the future of the world /
DA  - 2009.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Goldberg, Michelle,
CN  - HQ766.5.D44
CN  - HQ766.5.D44
PB  - Penguin Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2009.
ID  - 349499
KW  - Birth control
KW  - Reproductive rights
SN  - 9781594202087
SN  - 1594202087
TI  - The means of reproduction :sex, power, and the future of the world /
LK  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008046290-d.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0906/2008046290-d.html
ER  -