Description: Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India makes visible how under neoliberal regimes of 'empowered consumerism' Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) introduced as non-prescription pills in 2005 bring histories of demographic control projects and demographic anxieties into the present.
Brief description: Nayantara Sheoran Appleton is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Review Quotes:
"This timely intervention resets the narrative on demographic unease in the most populous nation on the planet, offering a brilliantly textured introduction to yearning citizens and fantasies conjuring the biopolitical state. A lucid account lifting the veil on desires lurking under demographic anxieties." --Aditya Bharadwaj, Geneva Graduate Institute
"Through the story of the Emergency Contraceptive Pill (ECP) in India, Demographic Desires offers a compelling critique of the troubling intersection between neoliberalism, eugenics, and population control agendas-often entangled with certain strands of feminism. The book serves as a powerful reminder of how states continue to regulate women's bodies, and how reproductive justice remains elusive for women, well into the twenty-first century." --Rachel Simon-Kumar, University of Auckland