Women, Population and Global Crisis A Political-Economic Analysis

About this book

This is a critique of the assumption that over-population is one of the root causes of global crisis. It gives a historical overview of the population question and places the population-poverty-environment-security debate within a broad theoretical perspective. The first part of the book looks at conventional ideologies of population control. In the second part, the author develops an alternative analysis of "overpopulation". Finally, she explores new global visions and efforts towards peace, justice and ecology. The book is a synthesis of Third World, feminist, socialist and ecological thinking and solutions.

Contents

Malthusianism; towards an alternative analysis structure and outline of the book. Part One: Malthusianism - theory and practice; Malthusian analysis of global crisis; the population stabilization agenda; evolution of the population control movement. Part Two: an alternative analysis; origin and evolution of the population explosion; social determinants of fertility - class and gender; inequality and environmental destruction; inequality and power; inequality and violence - the dynamics of resistance and repression. Part Three: towards democratic and sustainable development; from production to reproduction. Conclusions: criteria for a new policy on population and global survival.

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