1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826448303321

Autore

Pickthall Barry

Titolo

Going foreign : cruising abroad for the first time / / Barry Pickthall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Adlard Coles Nautical, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-4081-5127-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p. ) : col. ill., col. maps

Disciplina

623.88

Soggetti

Ocean travel

Offshore sailing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This highly comprehensible and illustrated book aims to eliminate the perceived obstacles and issues surrounding sailing one's boat to the continent.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148605803321

Autore

McCann Carole R (Carole Ruth), <1955->

Titolo

Figuring the Population Bomb : Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century / / Carole R. McCann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, [Washington] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2017

©2017

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Collana

Feminist technosciences

Disciplina

304.6

Soggetti

Population - Social aspects

Population policy

Population

Birth control - Political aspects

Birth control

Birth control - History - 20th century

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Figuring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic “facts” that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in the 1970s in Paul Ehrlich’s best-selling book The Population Bomb, which pathologized population growth in the Global South by presenting a doomsday scenario of widespread starvation resulting from that growth. Carole McCann uses an archive of foundational texts,



disciplinary histories, participant reminiscences, and organizational records to reveal the gendered geopolitical grounds of the specialized mathematical culture, bureaucratic organization, and intertextual hierarchy that gave authority to the concept of population explosion. These demographic theories and measurement practices ignited the population “crisis” and moved nations to interfere in women’s reproductive lives. Figuring the Population Bomb concludes that mid-twentieth-century demographic figures remain authoritative to this day in framing the context of transnational feminist activism for reproductive justice.