Unmaking Russia's Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics

by Michele Rivkin-Fish

As the predominant form of birth control in Soviet society, abortion reflected key paradoxes of state socialism: women held formal equality but lacked basic needs such as contraceptives. With market reforms, Russians enjoyed new access to Western contraceptives and new pressures to postpone childbearing until economically self-sufficient. But habits of family planning did not emerge automatically--they required extensive physician retraining, public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826506976
• ISBN13: 9780826506979
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 388 Pages