Acknowledgments
Matters of vital importance : demography and the mid-twentieth-century population imaginary
Rereading Malthus : population and masculine modernity
Narratives of exclusion, mechanisms of inclusion : demographic boundary work
Remaking Malthusian couplings for the contraceptive age
Demographic transitions and modern masculinities
"Second sight" and "fictitious accuracy to the numbers"
Conclusion: demographic convictions and sound knowledge.