New York Times Bestselling Author Michelle Goldberg to speak in Albany, Jan. 11

ALBANY, NY (01/06/2010)(readMedia)-- New York Times bestselling author Michelle Goldberg will address an audience of several hundred in The Well of the Legislative Office Building from 12-12:30 p.m. on Monday, January 11, 2010. Goldberg will speak on the topic of her latest book, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, which examines women's access to reproductive health care internationally.

Goldberg is a journalist and author based in Brooklyn. "The Means of Reproduction" was published in April by Penguin Press. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote that the book is "full of wonderful insights and stories...Goldberg is exactly right."

The media is invited to this speaking engagement and to interview Goldberg one-on-one on Sunday evening, January 10 and Monday morning, January 11.

As the keynote speaker at Family Planning Advocates of New York State's Day of Action on January 11, Goldberg's address will be very timely. New Yorkers' ability to access comprehensive reproductive health care is in jeopardy due to repeated state funding cuts to family planning centers and to efforts at the federal level to eliminate insurance coverage for and, ultimately, access to abortion care.

More about The Means of Reproduction

Researched on four continents, The Means of Reproduction tells the story of the global battle for reproductive rights and argues that the oppression of women is the great human rights issue of our time.

Katherine Jose of The New York Observer says, "The Means of Reproduction frames family planning as a public health issue, not a political issue." Organizations and individuals who support a women's right to choose and exercise her family planning options agree. However, attacks by federal lawmakers during the health care reform debate have ignited a new debate on abortion-further politicizing health care reform and this public health issue.

In 2008, The Means of Reproduction won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. The judges described it as "a book of vaulting ambition and intellectual passion. Michelle Goldberg looks at literally the entire world through the prism of women's issues and women's rights. From abortion to female circumcision, from sexual trafficking to abstinence-only programs, from Poland to Ethiopia to Nicaragua, she examines the conflict between self-determination and patriarchal tradition."

Goldberg also is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. She is a columnist for The Daily Beast and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and her work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, Glamour, The Los Angeles Times and many other publications.

Find more information about Michelle Goldberg at www.michellegoldberg.net.