03939oam 22007334a 450 991014860580332120240505234751.010.1515/9780295999111(CKB)3710000000903048(MiAaPQ)EBC4858180(OCoLC)967094081(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81660(DE-B1597)725421(DE-B1597)9780295999111(EXLCZ)99371000000090304820160415h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFiguring the Population BombGender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century /Carole R. McCann1st ed.Seattle, [Washington] ;London, [England] :University of Washington Press,2017.©20171 online resource (327 pages)Feminist technosciences9780295999098 0295999098 9780295999111 029599911X Includes bibliographical references 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.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.Feminist technosciences.PopulationSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01071506Population policyfast(OCoLC)fst01071601Populationfast(OCoLC)fst01071476Birth controlPolitical aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00833186Birth controlfast(OCoLC)fst00833148Birth controlPolitical aspectsBirth controlHistory20th centuryPopulationSocial aspectsPopulation policyPopulationHistory.PopulationSocial aspects.Population policy.Population.Birth controlPolitical aspects.Birth control.Birth controlPolitical aspects.Birth controlHistoryPopulationSocial aspects.Population policy.Population.304.6McCann Carole R(Carole Ruth),1955-1071048MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910148605803321Figuring the Population Bomb2565753UNINA