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Hodges, Sarah (2010) Malthus is forever : the global market for population control. Global Social Policy, Vol.10 (No.1). pp. 120-126. ISSN 1468-0181

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Abstract

Population control is diabolical. It is wily, ahistorical and better to give than
to receive. It is also a very popular 20th-century idea, and over the past decade
or so has finally begun to receive the kind of sustained critical inquiry that it
merits. Population control, in other words, is a great topic for those of us who
wish to understand sinews of power as they cross the globe. [...]

Item Type: Book Review
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine
Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert), 1766-1834, Population policy, Overpopulation, Birth control
Journal or Publication Title: Global Social Policy
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 1468-0181
Book Title: Fatal Misconception ; The Cairo Consensus ; Reproductive Rights and Wrongs ; From Population Control to Reproductive Health ; Marketing Reproduction
Official Date: April 2010
Dates:
DateEvent
April 2010Published
Volume: Vol.10
Number: No.1
Page Range: pp. 120-126
DOI: 10.1177/1468018109354494
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Description:

Review article: Connelly, M. (2008). Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population.
Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press. ;
Halfon, S. (2007). The Cairo Consensus: Demographic Surveys, Women’s Empowerment and
Regime Change in Population Policy. Lanham, MD and Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, ISBN: 0–7391–1176–0. ;
Hartmann, B. (1995). Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population
Control. Boston: South End Press, ISBN: 0–8960–8491–4. ;
Rao, M. (2004). From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic.
Delhi: Sage, ISBN: 0–7619–3269–0. ; Simon-Kumar, R. (2006).
Marketing Reproduction: Political Rhetoric and Gender Policy in India. Delhi: Zubaan, ISBN: 8–1890–1302–8.

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