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This Is A Collection Of Case Studies That Explore When And How Half Of The Twenty Most Populous Countries In The World Invented And Implemented Population Policies. It Presents Analyses Of Reproductive Politics In Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Nigeria, The Ussr/russia, And The United States. The Essays Focus On The Official, Organized Efforts That States Pursued To Facilitate State Decisions About How Many People, And Which People, Would Be Born Within Their Borders. Bio-politics, Demographobia, And Individual Freedom: Lessons From Germany's Century Of Extremes / Annette F. Timm -- Bleeding Across Time: First Principles Of U.s. Population Policy / Rickie Solinger -- From Abortion To Art: A History Of Conflict Between The State And The Women's Reproductive Rights Movement In Post World War Ii / Miho Ogino -- From Gandhi To Gandhi: Contraceptive Technologies And Sexual Politics In Post-colonial India, 1947-1977 / Sanjam Ahluwalia And Daksha Parmar -- Reproducing The Family: Biopolitics In Twentieth Century Egypt / Omnia El Shakry -- Iran's Population Policies: A Historical Debate / Firoozeh Kashani-sabet -- Reproductive Statecraft: The Case Of Brazil / Sonia Correa, Margareth Arilha, And Maísa Faleiros Da Cunha -- Interpreting Population Policy In Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- Liberation Without Contraception?: The Rise Of The Abortion Empire And Pronatalism In Socialist/post Socialist Russia / Mie Nakachi -- China's Population Policy In Historical Context / Tyrene White. Edited By Rickie Solinger And Mie Nakachi. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.