Figuring the Population Bomb - Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Carole McCann is professor of gender and women¿s studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916¿1945, and coeditor of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1. Matters of Vital Importance: Demography and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Population Imaginary

2. Rereading Malthus: Population and Masculine Modernity

3. Narratives of Exclusion, Mechanisms of Inclusion: Demographic Boundary Work

4. Remaking Malthusian Couplings for the Contraceptive Age

5. Demographic Transitions and Modern Masculinities

6. "Second Sight" and "Fictitious Accuracy to the Numbers"

Conclusion: Demographic Convictions and Sound Knowledge

Notes

References

Index

About the author

Carole McCann is a professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She coedited, with Seung-kyung Kim, Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, (New York: Routledge Press, 2003, 2009, and 2013) and is author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994; 1999).

Product details

• Authors: Carole R McCann, Carole R. McCann, Professor and the Chair and Professor and Mccann
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780295999104
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99910-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Feminist Technosciences; Feminist Technosciences; Figuring the Population Bomb
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories