https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Administration-of-Pregnancy https://booksandideas.net/The-Administration-of-Pregnancy 2018-04-26T07:00:00Z text/html en Caroline Muller History medicine body population Florence Gould Foundation abortion <p>While metropolitan France saw the repression of abortion in the early 20<sup class="typo_exposants">th</sup> century, against a backdrop of pro-natalist policy, pregnancy terminations were encouraged by authorities on Réunion Island after 1945. These practices shed light on a biopower constructed at the intersection of gender, class, and race.</p> https://booksandideas.net/When-Famine-Disappeared-Off-the https://booksandideas.net/When-Famine-Disappeared-Off-the 2011-01-03T09:04:51Z text/html en Timothy Brook History food population <p>In this historical study, Cormac Ó Gráda explains why famine is disappearing from human history. Food is now abundantly produced, consumed and distributed on a global scale and he claims that only unaccountable governments can use it as a political weapon and create famine. However, the problem of sustainable production of food remains to be solved.</p>