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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826506968
• ISBN13: 9780826506962
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"