Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia The Politics of Intervention

Name: Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia The Politics of Intervention
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ISBN: 9780253217677

ISBN-10: 0253217679

ISBN-13: 9780253217677

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michele Rivkin-Fish

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In the first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, deteriorating public health indicators such as below-replacement fertility and high rates of sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, birth traumas, and maternal mortality raised acute anxieties about Russia's future. This study documents the efforts of global and local experts, and ordinary Russian women in St. Petersburg, to explain Russia's maternal health problems and devise reforms to solve them. Examining both official health projects and informal daily practices, Michele Rivkin-Fish draws ethnographic and theoretical insights about the contested processes of interpreting and managing neo-liberal transitions in Russia and…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/4/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Michele Rivkin-Fish is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.



Introduction : conceptualizing the politics of intervention



Projects



Promoting democracy through moral correction



Stimulating providers, individualizing labor



Individualizing disciplines of sex education



Practices



Taking responsibility for ourselves



Personal ties and the authorization of medical power



Privatizing medicalization


Conclusion : transforming feminist strategies