Voluntary family planning is a key mainstay of demographic work and population policies.
The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) signalled a …

The institution of the family changed hugely during the course of the twentieth century. In this
major new work, Göran Therborn provides a global history and sociology of the family as an …

The Great Social Laboratory charts the development of the human sciences anthropology,
human geography, and demography in late nineteenth-and twentieth-century Egypt. Tracing …

The idea of the earth as a vessel in space came of age in an era shaped by space travel and
the Cold War. Höhler's study brings together technology, science and ecology to explore the …

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Asia was at the heart of international efforts to
create a new utopia: a world free from disease. This is a political, intellectual and social …

The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political
contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users. The intrauterine …

Many scholars have historicized biopolitics with reference to the emergence of sovereign
nations and their colonial extensions over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. This article …

Abstract Following the International Conference on Population and Development in 1994 in
Cairo, which prompted a discursive shift from population control to reproductive health and …

The history of coercive measures to control population growth in India is often reduced to a
few politicians caught up in a domestic crisis. In fact, the practices thought to distinguish the …

Reproductive Restraints traces the history of contraception use and population management
in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth …