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Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture 2024
Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics is a 2024 book written by American anthropologist Michele Rivkin-Fish. The book examines reproductive politics in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Rivkin-Fish follows efforts by health professionals and family planning advocates to promote modern contraceptives as an alternative to abortion, which was the main method of birth control during Soviet times because of ongoing shortages of reliable contraceptive supplies and lack of accurate information about preventing pregnancy. Using ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and literary text analysis, the author documents the creation of family planning institutions in the 1990s and the resistance they encountered from nationalist and Russian Orthodox groups who viewed contraceptive advocacy as a Western challenge to Russian demographic stability. The book positions the weakening of Russian family planning organizations within a broader global rise in illiberal attitudes toward reproductive rights.
Details
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- ISBN
- 9780826506979
- Pages
- 348
- Format
- Print (hardcover, paperback), e-book
- Series
- Policy to Practice: Ethnographic Perspectives on Global Health Systems
