Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century
by
Carole R. McCann
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
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...