The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World Books
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In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism by the author of the New York Times epic Kingdom Appearance, 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 fantastic 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 gone 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 populace.
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 obtain fierce challenger 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 populace growth in poor countries to the current worldwide attack on women’s rights as a decadent Western imposition, Goldberg explores the interaction between the fantastic 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 limits, are fighting for freedom.
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In the past, the extremists talked in terms of “overpopulation” in order to rationalize abortion. Now, in this dull piece that tries to pass itself off as journalism, another term, “liberation,” has been shamelessly adopted.
The agenda is to turn abortion into a “aptly,” of course.
The plea, written in numerous sections in rather hysterical tones, is constructed by an fascinate to base and raw emotions: trying to make the association between tyranny and women’s defenseless bodies.
It doesn’t work.
This work merely presents another biased and extremely one-sided view to support a radical anti-life ideology of the abortion movement.
For example, as expected, the Pope is disparaged, even though he warned that tyrannical governments would exploit this type of thought and dread to use in gaining more centralized power as they did in Plates.
This is simply another radical extemist feminist rant, in the name of “rights” (reproductive, of course) in order to buy foothold on new ground.
This book should be summarily trashed because it is….well… trash!
Rating: 1 / 5
First off the author wrote Kingdom Appearance: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, so she doesn’t like conservatives much less Christians, so be forewarned. What troubled me about her newest book The Means of Reproduction is how she doesn’t spend much time at all denouncing the lack of right reproductive freedom in Plates, but denounces other countries who want to deny abortion but do not deny birth control.
Thus I reckon she picks and chooses very carefully what liberal ideals she agrees with, even as denouncing most of what the challenger believes in. And she seems to miss the thought that women of child impact age often have a maternal instinct or ‘gene’ that makes suggesting the abort their baby an thought that goes contrary to womanhood.
She seems to not want to discuss much less push male contraception be it daily tablets or vasectomies. And even as it is right that Presidents Truman and Eisenhower supported Plotted Parenthood creation, at the time abortion was NOT on the table and they did NOT support abortion, but did support family plotting that permitted preventing fertilization in the first place. And thus allowing married couples to plot their families size better.
She also tends to not know that the family unit for centuries has been the cornerstone of a civilized community. And she uses a broad brush to paint habitual women who are homemakers as being less than the woman who goes to a paying job. There is the saying that the woman who rocks the cradle rules the world. She ignores any data that notes that the less habitual women become the higher rates of divorce we have which means dysfunctional children that end up needing more and more government services. And I was disappointed that she rants on and on about problems but serves up few if any solutions.
Would be nice to know more about the author and her family background. In the end the book is really an fascinating read, and being a reader of all viewpoints I still want to urge the book.
Rating: 4 / 5
This is an brilliant and vital book. When people reckon grandly about politics, women’s rights often get small shrift — if they get any shrift at all. But Michelle Goldberg argues persuasively, with thorough research and many fantastic anecdotes, that a successful fight for women’s reproductive rights would solve both over- and underpopulation — that, in addition to being the aptly thing to do, winning that battle is also crucial to humanity’s future.
Rating: 5 / 5
Cultural analysis lends insight and depth to a guide not compulsory for high school to college-level collections strong in women’s issues in THE MEANS OF REPRODUCTION: SEX, POWER, AND THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD. The freedom of women has become the key human rights struggle of our times, and this surveys history and social issues on four continents to consider the wider, global come forth.
Rating: 5 / 5
The case for giving women equal rights as a solution for global poverty is expertly laid out in this fascinating read.
Rating: 5 / 5