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Book SynopsisTrade Review"McCann’s work is a masterly reading of sources, theory, and history. She employs a range of disciplinary tools and methods, thinking not only as a historian but also as a demographer, feminist theorist, and textual and cultural analyst."
* Journal of American History *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Matters of Vital Importance: Demography and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Population Imaginary
2. Rereading Malthus: Population and Masculine Modernity
3. Narratives of Exclusion, Mechanisms of Inclusion: Demographic Boundary Work
4. Remaking Malthusian Couplings for the Contraceptive Age
5. Demographic Transitions and Modern Masculinities
6. “Second Sight” and “Fictitious Accuracy to the Numbers”
Conclusion: Demographic Convictions and Sound Knowledge
Notes
References
Index
