2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award Winner

Michelle Goldberg
for The Means of Reproduction (to be published by The Penguin Press 2009)

Judges' Citation

“The Means of Reproduction is 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. In case after case, she contends, a conservative American administration, theologically and pragmatically bound to fundamentalist Christianity, plays either a direct or indirect role. In the tradition of Tony Lukas, Michelle Goldberg explores vast issues through individual lives."

Bio

Michelle Goldberg is the author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, a finalist for the 2007 Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. Formerly a senior writer at Salon.com, her work has also appeared in Glamour, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, The Guardian (UK) and many other publications. For the past year and a half she's been traveling the world working on The Means of Reproduction, reporting, so far, from Nicaragua, Kenya, Poland, The Netherlands, England, Ethiopia and Uganda. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Matt Ipcar.

Judges for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award

Miss Kennedy Fraser, author of Ornament and Silence, Samuel G. Freedman, professor at The Journalism School at Columbia University; and Suzannah Lessard, winner of the 2005 Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and author of Architect of Desire.

Journalism Awards

2008 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award Winner