Women's health in post-Soviet Russia : the politics of intervention
Michele R. Rivkin-Fish (Author)
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.
Print Book, English, 2005
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2005
xiv, 253 pages ; 24 cm.
9780253345806, 9780253217677, 0253345804, 0253217679
57573603
Acknowledgments
Introduction: conceptualizing the politics of intervention
pt. 1. Projects
Promoting democracy through moral correction
Stimulating providers, individualizing labor
Individualizing disciplines of sex education
pt. 2. Practices
Taking responsibility for ourselves
Personal ties and the authorization of medical power
Privatizing medicalization
Conclusion: transforming feminist strategies
Notes
Works cited
Index