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

Informationen zum Autor Michele Rivkin-Fish is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Klappentext Michele Rivkin-Fish is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Zusammenfassung A study that 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. It explores the challenges of bringing anthropological insights to public health interventions for women's empowerment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Conceptualizing the Politics of Intervention Part I. Projects 1. Promoting Democracy through Moral Correction 2. Stimulating Providers, Individualizing Labor 3. Individualizing Disciplines of Sex Education Part II. Practices 4. Taking Responsibility for Ourselves 5. Personal Ties and the Authorization of Medical Power 6. Privatizing Medicalization Conclusion: Transforming Feminist Strategies Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Michele Rivkin-Fish, Rivkin-Fish Michele
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2005
• EAN: 9780253217677
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21767-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe; New Anthropologies of Europe (
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General