Figuring the population bomb : gender and demography in the mid-twentieth century /
Carole R. McCann.
- First edition.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
- Feminist technosciences .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Acknowledgments -- Matters of vital importance : demography and the mid-twentieth-century population imaginary -- Rereading Malthus : population and masculine modernity -- Narratives of exclusion, mechanisms of inclusion : demographic boundary work -- Remaking Malthusian couplings for the contraceptive age -- Demographic transitions and modern masculinities -- "Second sight" and "fictitious accuracy to the numbers" -- Conclusion: demographic convictions and sound knowledge -- Notes -- References -- Index.