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Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Feminist Technosciences)
Carole R. McCann
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Paperback. Series: Feminist Technosciences. Num Pages: 328 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFFK; JFSJ; JHBD; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 247 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Feminist Technosciences
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295999104
SKU
V9780295999104
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About Carole R. McCann
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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