Over at Feministing, there’s a vigorous discussion about the excerpt from my book The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World that appears in the current issue of the Prospect. Many of those leaving comments seem to think that the piece is a rationalization or a justification for female circumcision, which […]
Michelle Goldberg
Michelle Goldberg is a senior correspondent at The American Prospect. She is also the author of Kingdom Coming and The Means of Reproduction.
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IS AMERICAN AID HURTING PAKISTAN?
A couple of weeks ago, while working on a story that never really went anywhere, I interviewed several Pakistani lawyers and women’s rights activists. I wanted to know whether there was anything they wanted to see the United States do to protect or help women in areas of the country falling under Taliban sway. There […]
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A Long, Uncivil War
In her new book, former ACLU board member Wendy Kaminer goes after the organization and its current director. But in mixing the personal with the political, does she miss the real challenges facing the group in the wake of the Bush administration?
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VIRAL PANIC.
When news of the swine flu broke out, my first thought was that it would be a great time for a vacation in Tulum. During the brief panic over the bird flu in Hong Kong in the late 1990s, I took a fantastic, and fantastically discounted, trip there that I never could have afforded during […]
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THIS IS WHAT A FEMINIST SECRETARY OF STATE LOOKS LIKE.
One of the arguments of my new book, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, is that American abortion politics have an even greater impact on the health of women worldwide than on women at home. To be sure, since Reagan, Republican presidents have worked to erode reproductive rights, especially […]
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Is the Threat of Homegrown Extremism Real?
Government needs to watch fringe political groups more closely — but can it do so without abusing its surveillance power?
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WOMEN AND REALISM.
In The New York Times today, Nader Nadery and Haseeb Humayoon take the United States to task for sidelining the issue of women’s rights in Afghanistan. Nadery, a member of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and Humayoon, who has consulted for NGOs working in Afghanistan, cite the brave girls who returned to school after […]
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Rights Versus Rites
When it comes to the lives of women around the globe, do local traditions ever trump human rights?
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FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE GUN-HOARDING SKINHEADS.
A newly leaked Department of Homeland Security warns, quite sensibly, that the “economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.” Many people who study the right have been expecting exactly that. The 1980s farm foreclosure crisis in the Midwest did much to spawn the […]
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AMAZON VS. GAYS, FEMINISTS.
Like many writers with a new book out, I’ve been obsessively charting the vicissitudes of my Amazon.com sales ranking. Until a couple of days ago, when the ranking disappeared. At the same time, the hardcover version of my book stopped coming up in searches, although the Kindle version still did. At first I figured it […]
