LEADER 03939oam 22007334a 450 001 9910148605803321 005 20240505234751.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780295999111 035 $a(CKB)3710000000903048 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4858180 035 $a(OCoLC)967094081 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_81660 035 $a(DE-B1597)725421 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780295999111 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000903048 100 $a20160415h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFiguring the Population Bomb$eGender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century /$fCarole R. McCann 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSeattle, [Washington] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Washington Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (327 pages) 225 0 $aFeminist technosciences 311 08$a9780295999098 311 08$a0295999098 311 08$a9780295999111 311 08$a029599911X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgments -- 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. 330 $aFiguring the Population Bomb traces the genealogy of twentieth-century demographic ?facts? that created a mathematical panic about a looming population explosion. This narrative was popularized in the 1970s in Paul Ehrlich?s best-selling book The Population Bomb, which pathologized population growth in the Global South by presenting a doomsday scenario of widespread starvation resulting from that growth. Carole McCann uses an archive of foundational texts, disciplinary histories, participant reminiscences, and organizational records to reveal the gendered geopolitical grounds of the specialized mathematical culture, bureaucratic organization, and intertextual hierarchy that gave authority to the concept of population explosion. These demographic theories and measurement practices ignited the population ?crisis? and moved nations to interfere in women?s reproductive lives. Figuring the Population Bomb concludes that mid-twentieth-century demographic figures remain authoritative to this day in framing the context of transnational feminist activism for reproductive justice. 410 0$aFeminist technosciences. 606 $aPopulation$xSocial aspects$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01071506 606 $aPopulation policy$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01071601 606 $aPopulation$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01071476 606 $aBirth control$xPolitical aspects$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00833186 606 $aBirth control$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00833148 606 $aBirth control$xPolitical aspects 606 $aBirth control$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPopulation$xSocial aspects 606 $aPopulation policy 606 $aPopulation 608 $aHistory. 615 7$aPopulation$xSocial aspects. 615 7$aPopulation policy. 615 7$aPopulation. 615 7$aBirth control$xPolitical aspects. 615 7$aBirth control. 615 7$aBirth control$xPolitical aspects. 615 7$aBirth control$xHistory 615 7$aPopulation$xSocial aspects. 615 7$aPopulation policy. 615 7$aPopulation. 676 $a304.6 700 $aMcCann$b Carole R$g(Carole Ruth),$f1955-$01071048 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148605803321 996 $aFiguring the Population Bomb$92565753 997 $aUNINA