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"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 Contents

Acknowledgments
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

Figuring the Population Bomb

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9780295999104, 978-0295999104
      ISBN10: 0295999101
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      Feminism and feminist theory Population and demography History of science

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade 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 Contents

      Acknowledgments
      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

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