Figuring the population bomb : gender and demography in the mid-twentieth century

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