"A compelling look at twentieth-century demographic knowledge and how it continues to shape the field, including the ways that scholars, policy officials, and others see poor countries or ‘overpopulation.’"
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Nancy E. Riley, coauthor of Demography in the Age of the Postmodern
"Brava! In this rich, fully realized analysis, McCann revisits 'the population bomb' global imaginary with a transnational feminist science studies lens. Focusing on key discourses-demography, birth control, and Indian anticolonialism-she brilliantly delineates the affective alignments across them that are requisite for sustained credibility of 'population' as solely a numbers game. Despite feminist challenges, the gendered and racialized discursive grammar McCann parses continues to generate globally 'imposable' contraceptives, locally stratified reproduction and, sadly, widely distributed human agony."
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Adele E. Clarke, author of Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences and the “Problem of Sex"