Name: Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Feminist Technosciences) (en Inglés)
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Author: Carole R. Mccann
ISBN: 9780295999098

portada Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Feminist Technosciences) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of Washington Press

Autor

Carole R. Mccann

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

328

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780295999098

Categorías

Historia de la ciencia

Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Feminist Technosciences) (en Inglés)

Carole R. Mccann (Autor) · University Of Washington Press · Tapa Dura

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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.