Carole R McCann

Figuring the Population Bomb

Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Carole McCann is professor of gender and women¿s studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916¿1945, and coeditor of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9780295999104
• ISBN-10: 0295999101
• Artikelnr.: 44826629

Autorenporträt

Carole McCann is a professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She coedited, with Seung-kyung Kim, Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives, (New York: Routledge Press, 2003, 2009, and 2013) and is author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994; 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

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