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An investigative journalist and essayist on the human condition reveals the true stories behind social trends that intimately affect our lives.
Travels From: New York, NY
Areas of expertise: Women's Studies, Fertility/Reproduction, Personal Relationships, Parenting
Author of:  In Her Own Sweet Time
Basic Books
2009
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About the speaker:
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt is the author of In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding, Love, Commitment and Motherhood, published by Basic Books in June, 2009, as well as an essayist and journalist. She writes about social trends, media, business, gender politics and the influence of science and technology on culture. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, New York, Vogue, O magazine, Self, Glamour, Outside, Wired, The New York Observer, US News and World Report, Salon.com, Business Week, The London Times, The Daily Mail and she has written and co-produced a multi-media column for MSN Money. When she's not writing in the West Village of Manhattan, she's somewhere in world on assignment—she's gone undercover with prostitutes and ravers, observed fashion trends in American malls, explored (and sometimes surfed) secret beaches, and worked on stories in India, South Africa, Italy and Argentina. Lehmann-Haupt appeared on ABC's Good Morning America and NPR's Talk of the Nation. In Her Own Sweet Time received positive reviews in both The New York Times and The Washington Post, where the reviewer wrote, "Lehmann-Haupt is a skilled, empathetic writer and an excellent researcher, alert to the absurdities and ethical ambiguities of her quest, and she has written a valuable guide."
She graduated with honors in English Literature from Kenyon College and attended The Graduate School of Journalism at The University of California at Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, she was the founding editor of F magazine, a post-feminist zine for which she received a fellowship from Women in Communications, Inc. She was also an assistant editor to Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine, at The Felker Magazine Center. She has been a freelance editor and held editorial posts at numerous publications, and has been Executive Editor of Plum magazine, the first magazine devoted to first time mothers over the age of thirty-five. She has worked as a freelance book editor and ghost writer, which includes the bestselling book, The Female Brain by Louanne Brizendine (Random House, 2007), and she produces live events for authors and media brands that are filmed, broadcast, and marketed on-line.
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Your Biological Clock: Managing Your Fertility, Relationship, and Career In this modern age, planning your life course is a tricky balancing act between career and family that often involves re-planning. Based on her own experience and the stories she gathered in her book, In Her Own Sweet Time, she can speak to the vital issues that surround managing a career track and a family track, and the best practices for working with your company, as well as the new array of choices that we have from "instant families" to "egg freezing" to "single motherhood." ::
Why I Froze My Eggs: Is Egg Freezing as Revolutionary as the Pill? Through her personal story, Lehmann-Haupt can describe the experience and explain the pros and cons of this choice, the cultural stir it has created, and the challenge of advanced reproductive technology in general in women's and men's lives and family planning. ::
Rebecca Walker and Rachel Lehmann-Haupt discuss the New American Family Today, planning your life course is a tricky balancing act between career, partner choice, and the state of a woman's fertility. As a result, women are choosing to freeze their eggs (and lean on other Advanced Reproductive Technologies) to extend their fertility, buy donor eggs from younger women, pick the father of their child from a catalog at the sperm clinic, and choose families arrangements that don't always match the most traditional "first come loves, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage?" route to cover the emotional and financial pressures of family life.
In this dynamic and lively presentation, authors Rebecca Walker and Rachel Lehmann-Haupt discuss the news paths they've discovered through talking with dozens of women and men about the new American family, and the insights they've gleaned along the way. Lehmann-Haupt 's new book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood, explores the new array of choices available to women today, from "instant families" to single motherhood and egg freezing. Through her personal story, Lehmann-Haupt can describe the experience and explain the pros and cons of "egg freezing," the cultural stir it has created, and the challenge of advanced reproductive technology in family planning.
In "One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Mixed Marriage, Open Adoption, Single Motherhood and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love," bestselling author Rebecca Walker steps into a range of domestic arrangements to explore radical changes taking place in the American family. Through her personal story of growing up in a multiracial family, she can describe the effect changing values around race and sexuality, shifting gender roles, and rising infertility are having on the intimacy of modern life.
Rebecca Walker is the author of several books including the memoirs Baby Love, and Black White and Jewish. In her writing and speaking she gives a personal face and offers life strategies to social trends that intimately affect the lives of women, men, people of color and the lbgt community. Her specialties include the global impact of multiracial identity, the shifts in contemporary masculinity, and the evolution of contemporary feminism. She has been featured on Oprah, Good Morning America, Charlie Rose, and was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people of her generation. ::
The Future of Reproduction: A Personal and Global Perspective In this modern age, planning your life course is a tricky balancing act between career and family that often involves re-planning. Based on her own experience and the stories she gathered in her book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures in Finding Love, Commitment and Motherhood, about women looking for the best age at which to have a child, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt will speak about the consequences and dilemmas surrounding modern motherhood and fatherhood, infertility, and the new array of choices that we have from "instant families" to "egg freezing" to "single motherhood" to "the donor egg economy" to living "child free." She will address the changing attitudes towards later motherhood and the uses of and advances in reproductive medicine.
Michelle Goldberg, author of The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and and the Future of the World, will speak about the global battle for control of women's fertility, a battle that pits coalitions of religious fundamentalists against a cosmopolitan array of feminists, reformers and doctors. Goldberg will show the surprising ways that women's rights, and their access to reproductive choice, is central to combatting global poverty, maternal mortality, political instability and even collapsing birth rates in Europe, and she'll discuss the profound effect that American abortion politics have on women all over the planet.
BIO: Michelle Goldberg is a journalist and author based in Brooklyn, New York. Her most recent book is The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, which was published in April by Penguin Press and won last year's J. Anthony Lukas Work in Progress Award. Researched in 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. New York Times columnist Nick Kristof wrote that the book is "full of wonderful insights and stories...Goldberg is exactly right." Goldberg is also 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. ::
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