Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The real population problem

Rethinking the population problem

A womb of one's own

The plan behind family planning

The Indonesion success and the Kenyan failure

Population control comes of age

Birth of an ideology

The population establishment today

The "new look" in family planning

China-- one child, one too few

Contraceptive controversies

Shaping contraceptive technology

Hormonal contraceptives and the IUD

Bangladesh-- Survival of the richest

Sterilization and abortion

Barrier contraceptives and natural family planning

The Way forward

The light at the end of the demographic tunnel

Expanding choices