Aprajita Sarcar is Postdoctoral Dellow in the Laureate Centre for History and Population, University of New South Wales, Australia. She has previously held a postdoctoral position in the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. She works on everyday governance of reproductive health and population control programme in postcolonial India. Her work is on the intersection of health, gender and urban histories of South Asia.Aya Homei is Reader in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is also a Vice President of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology's Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST) Commission on Science, Technology, and Division, and an editor of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal. She serves as a commissioned researcher for the Japanese government’s National Institute of Population and Social Security Research and the author of Science for Governing Japan’s Population.Alison Bashford is Scientia Professor of History at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. Previously she was Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge, UK, and is Fellow of the British Academy. Bashford is an award-winning historian, her most recent book The Huxleys: An Intimate History of Evolution, won the Nib Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Cundill History prize, and the Hughes Award, British Society for the History of Science. She was awarded the Dan David Laureate Prize (2021) for her contributions to the history of medicine. Bashford is a regular broadcaster on BBC and ABC, including The Science Show and Start the Week (Radio 4), and is commissioned to write for UnHerd, Times Literary Supplement, The New Humanist, LA Review of Books, The Lancet, London Review of Books.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsPopulating the 1980s: An Introduction, Aprajita Sarcar, Aya Homei, Alison BashfordPart I: Transnationalism, Conservatism and Feminism in the 1980s: Contesting Rights and Justice1. Choice, Consent, and Rights: US Anti-Abortion Strategies, Population Policy, and the ‘Global Gag Rule’, Prudence Flowers2. Transnational Catholicism and the Billings Method of Family Planning, Raúl Necochea López and Alison Bashford3. Aiding Coercion? The Transnational Response to Indian and Chinese Population Policy in the 1980s, Rebecca Williams4. (Dis)Engaging Population: The International Women’s Health Coalition and the Transnational Politics of Reproductive Health in the 1980s, Mytheli Sreenivas5. Family Planning for Global Population Control? China-Japan Cooperation in the 1980s, Aya HomeiPart II: Populating National Borders: Sovereignty and Security in the 1980s6. Cairo before the ‘Cairo Moment’: Re-Opening the Population Question in 1980s Egypt, Stephen Pascoe7. Family Planning and Transmigration: The Violence of Liberalization in Indonesia’s Population Programs, Sarah Kennedy Bates8. Redefining the 1980s in Japan: Demographic Change and the Idea of ‘Comprehensive National Power’, Mina Markovic9. Between International and National Concerns: Population Debates in 1980s Britain, Caroline Rusterholz10. Fertility Control in 1980s South Africa, Natasha Erlank11. Carrying Capacity: Debating Population in 1980s Australia, Ben Huf

Populating the 1980s is a brilliant and deeply researched contribution to the history of population and population thought, focusing on a decade that has long been overlooked.