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

• Autore: McCann Carole R (Carole Ruth), <1955->
• Pubblicazione: Seattle, [Washington] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 304.6
• Soggetto topico: Population - Social aspects; Population policy; Population; Birth control - Political aspects; Birth control; Birth control - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Figuring the Population Bomb
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910148605803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Feminist technosciences.