Figuring the Population Bomb

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Acknowledgments -- Matters of vital importance : demography and the mid-twentieth-century population imaginary -- Rereading Malthus : population and masculine modernity -- Narratives of exclusion, mechanisms of inclusion : demographic boundary work -- Remaking Malthusian couplings for the contraceptive age -- Demographic transitions and modern masculinities -- "Second sight" and "fictitious accuracy to the numbers"--Conclusion: demographic convictions and sound knowledge -- Notes -- References -- Index