Malthusian Men and Demographic Transitions: A Case Study of Hegemonic Masculinity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Population Theory

3 As part of the postwar expansion of social sciences, US demographers were actively involved in the establishment of international standards of population surveys through the United Nations Population Division. [...] they provided expert advice to the new statistical bureaus set up by emerging nati...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers (Boulder) 2009-01, Vol.30 (1), p.142-171
1. Verfasser: Mccann, Carole R.
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Zusammenfassung:3 As part of the postwar expansion of social sciences, US demographers were actively involved in the establishment of international standards of population surveys through the United Nations Population Division. [...] they provided expert advice to the new statistical bureaus set up by emerging nations of the Global South. According to Frank Notestein, the available evidence suggested that people having different racial origins and widely different cultural backgrounds [would] modify their reproductive behavior in response to changing environments in the same way that persons of European origins ha[d] done.
ISSN:0160-9009
1536-0334
1536-0334
DOI:10.1353/fro.0.0044