Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.