| Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century Subjects: Population; Population policy; Population -- Social Aspects; Birth control -- History -- 20th century; Birth control -- Political aspects; 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 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 . |