A Temkina
Biographic Data
| ID | 36874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Temkina |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Temkina |
| SIGNATURE | TEMKINA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University at Saint Petersburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7988-8310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective
This article explores the sexual subjectivity of women of post-reproductive age who seek partners on dating apps. The existing literature highlights the sexual subjectivity and agency of older women as contested and not sufficiently investigated. Even less research has been conducted on changes in the sexual subjectivity of women born in the USSR in the 1960s, with the liberalisation of sexual behaviour. The study is based on 45 interviews with w…
I continue to consult remotely
Institutional inconsistencies and professionals' hidden institutional work in Russian pandemic-affected healthcare
In recent years, medical sociology has produced a significant amount of publications about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical care provision and healthcare professionalism around the globe. This study builds on this line of research by looking at a rarely discussed case of pandemic management-the case of Russia's centralized and state-dominated medical sector. In our analysis, we focus on the organizational level and the institutiona…
Forum 52
For the past two years, research groups and universities have been exposed to the novel and unpredictable conditions of life during the viral pandemic, and to the constantly shifting restrictions on normal academic activities that have accompanied it. In particular, personal contacts—between teachers and students and between colleagues—have to a large extent been difficult or impossible. For some, the social restrictions have been a disaster, whi…
Emotional styles in Russian maternity hospitals
This article explores emotional styles of Russian maternity hospitals and their recent changes. We focus on two emotional practices that characterise different emotional styles: the Soviet-associated emotional practice of khamstvo (rudeness) and the post-Soviet neoliberal practice of smiling. Emotional styles in healthcare in Russia have been transformed under childbearing women’s consumer demands and new professional standards. However, maternit…
The Academicians on Quarantine
The goal of this article is to analyze the challenges faced by social researchers during the first months of the pandemic of 2020 when work-life issues were problematized and academic routine changed. The article is based on a dataset of diaries in which researchers with an academic background in social sciences and humanities were fixing their everyday life and reflecting on its changes. We explore why academicians, a relatively privileged group…
Ten considerations for effectively managing the Covid-19 transition
Governments around the world have implemented measures to manage the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While the majority of these measures are proving effective, they have a high social and economic cost, and response strategies are being adjusted. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that communities should have a voice, be informed and engaged, and participate in this transition phase. We propose ten considerations…
Childbirth is not a car rental’
This article explores how commercialization of maternity care in Russia offers new opportunities and imposes new limitations on both mothers-to-be and doctors. The research is based on 35 in-depth interviews with patients and 24 with professionals in paid maternity car in St. Petersburg (2015–2017). It is a significant and illustrative case within the broader trends in the Russian health care system of the 2000s–2010s. This article’s contribution…
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Medical Settings
While there is a substantive amount of literature on vulnerability of different kinds of patients in different settings, medical professionals are usually considered as the ones who possess power and gain a privileged position. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate that in a certain context physicians—a social group which is usually referred to as “powerful”—consider themselves vulnerable, and this positioning may influence patients in turn. This …
Creating health care consumers
Budushchaya mat kak issledovatel
А н т р о п о
Intersectional Turn in Gender Studies
"Economy of Trust" in Commercial Obstetric Care
The Sexual Scripts and Identity of Middle-Class Russian Women
The Gynaecologist’s Gaze
This essay discusses the medicalisation of contraception by gynaecologists in present-day Russia. I explore the disciplining discourse and tactics of gynaecologists as experts who aim to orient women towards properly planned and prepared pregnancy. Gynaecologists are important agents of reproductive control because they instruct women in detail about reproductive health and contraception. However, these disciplining medical discourses and profess…
Using maternity capital
During the last decade Russian politics have aimed at stimulating the birth rate, most famously by the maternity capital program. This article provides results from the first extensive study of citizen use and attitudes to this benefit and concludes that Russian women and families harbor a deep distrust of the program and Russian social policy, as it sends contradictory messages combining paternalistic and liberal trends. Many eligible mothers ha…
Gender's crooked path
In this article we discuss the uneasy development of gender studies in Russia as one example of public sociology. For empirical evidence we concentrate mainly on our own experience in the Gender Studies Program at the European University in St. Petersburg, but we also refer to the other cases. We observe how the political and academic context of the 1990s created opportunities for academic innovations that ideologically challenged Soviet patriarc…
The Father Who Participates in Childbirth
Two models of participation of fathers in childbirth are analyzed. The first is full participation, partnership, and appropriate training for family-oriented men. The second is more situational and "formal." Historical, social, and economic contexts are discussed for both models. Data is based on interviews and observation
Control and Subversion
Who Helps the Degraded Housewife
This article analyses the new demographic programme that was announced by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in 2006. The main goal of this programme is to encourage fertility, especially the birth of a second child. New benefits should elevate the status of wome taking maternity leave, who might otherwise suffer from discrimination in the family. The housewife is considered to be dependent and `degraded'. We argue that this demographic polit…
Gender Studies in Post-Soviet Society
The Social Base of Economic Reforms in the USSR
Defining the nature of the social base is one of the central problems in analyzing economic reforms and changes in the economic and labor spheres
The workers' movement in Leningrad, 1986–91
(1992). The workers' movement in Leningrad, 1986–91. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 209-236
“Sociologists in White”
This article presents research reflections on the fieldwork conducted in a medical organization in Russia. We emphasize how our professional positioning in the field was changing as a result of the ethnographic immersion into the empirical work. Addressing the insider/outsider dilemma and testing some of the feminist principles of interactions with research participants, we find that we neither become “insiders” nor remain “outsiders” in the orga…
Who Helps the Degraded Housewife
This article analyses the new demographic programme that was announced by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in 2006. The main goal of this programme is to encourage fertility, especially the birth of a second child. New benefits should elevate the status of wome taking maternity leave, who might otherwise suffer from discrimination in the family. The housewife is considered to be dependent and `degraded'. We argue that this demographic polit…
Ten considerations for effectively managing the Covid-19 transition
Governments around the world have implemented measures to manage the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While the majority of these measures are proving effective, they have a high social and economic cost, and response strategies are being adjusted. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that communities should have a voice, be informed and engaged, and participate in this transition phase. We propose ten considerations…
Gender Studies in Post-Soviet Society
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Medical Settings
While there is a substantive amount of literature on vulnerability of different kinds of patients in different settings, medical professionals are usually considered as the ones who possess power and gain a privileged position. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate that in a certain context physicians—a social group which is usually referred to as “powerful”—consider themselves vulnerable, and this positioning may influence patients in turn. This …
Creating health care consumers
Gender's crooked path
In this article we discuss the uneasy development of gender studies in Russia as one example of public sociology. For empirical evidence we concentrate mainly on our own experience in the Gender Studies Program at the European University in St. Petersburg, but we also refer to the other cases. We observe how the political and academic context of the 1990s created opportunities for academic innovations that ideologically challenged Soviet patriarc…
The Sexual Scripts and Identity of Middle-Class Russian Women
Using maternity capital
During the last decade Russian politics have aimed at stimulating the birth rate, most famously by the maternity capital program. This article provides results from the first extensive study of citizen use and attitudes to this benefit and concludes that Russian women and families harbor a deep distrust of the program and Russian social policy, as it sends contradictory messages combining paternalistic and liberal trends. Many eligible mothers ha…
Emotional styles in Russian maternity hospitals
This article explores emotional styles of Russian maternity hospitals and their recent changes. We focus on two emotional practices that characterise different emotional styles: the Soviet-associated emotional practice of khamstvo (rudeness) and the post-Soviet neoliberal practice of smiling. Emotional styles in healthcare in Russia have been transformed under childbearing women’s consumer demands and new professional standards. However, maternit…
The Gynaecologist’s Gaze
This essay discusses the medicalisation of contraception by gynaecologists in present-day Russia. I explore the disciplining discourse and tactics of gynaecologists as experts who aim to orient women towards properly planned and prepared pregnancy. Gynaecologists are important agents of reproductive control because they instruct women in detail about reproductive health and contraception. However, these disciplining medical discourses and profess…
The Father Who Participates in Childbirth
Two models of participation of fathers in childbirth are analyzed. The first is full participation, partnership, and appropriate training for family-oriented men. The second is more situational and "formal." Historical, social, and economic contexts are discussed for both models. Data is based on interviews and observation
The workers' movement in Leningrad, 1986–91
(1992). The workers' movement in Leningrad, 1986–91. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 209-236
I continue to consult remotely
The Social Base of Economic Reforms in the USSR
Defining the nature of the social base is one of the central problems in analyzing economic reforms and changes in the economic and labor spheres
The workers' movement in Leningrad, 1986–91
(1992). The workers' movement in Leningrad, 1986–91. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 209-236
Gender Studies in Post-Soviet Society
Who Helps the Degraded Housewife
This article analyses the new demographic programme that was announced by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, in 2006. The main goal of this programme is to encourage fertility, especially the birth of a second child. New benefits should elevate the status of wome taking maternity leave, who might otherwise suffer from discrimination in the family. The housewife is considered to be dependent and `degraded'. We argue that this demographic polit…
Control and Subversion
The Father Who Participates in Childbirth
Two models of participation of fathers in childbirth are analyzed. The first is full participation, partnership, and appropriate training for family-oriented men. The second is more situational and "formal." Historical, social, and economic contexts are discussed for both models. Data is based on interviews and observation
Using maternity capital
During the last decade Russian politics have aimed at stimulating the birth rate, most famously by the maternity capital program. This article provides results from the first extensive study of citizen use and attitudes to this benefit and concludes that Russian women and families harbor a deep distrust of the program and Russian social policy, as it sends contradictory messages combining paternalistic and liberal trends. Many eligible mothers ha…
Gender's crooked path
In this article we discuss the uneasy development of gender studies in Russia as one example of public sociology. For empirical evidence we concentrate mainly on our own experience in the Gender Studies Program at the European University in St. Petersburg, but we also refer to the other cases. We observe how the political and academic context of the 1990s created opportunities for academic innovations that ideologically challenged Soviet patriarc…
The Sexual Scripts and Identity of Middle-Class Russian Women
The Gynaecologist’s Gaze
This essay discusses the medicalisation of contraception by gynaecologists in present-day Russia. I explore the disciplining discourse and tactics of gynaecologists as experts who aim to orient women towards properly planned and prepared pregnancy. Gynaecologists are important agents of reproductive control because they instruct women in detail about reproductive health and contraception. However, these disciplining medical discourses and profess…
Intersectional Turn in Gender Studies
"Economy of Trust" in Commercial Obstetric Care
Budushchaya mat kak issledovatel
А н т р о п о
Childbirth is not a car rental’
This article explores how commercialization of maternity care in Russia offers new opportunities and imposes new limitations on both mothers-to-be and doctors. The research is based on 35 in-depth interviews with patients and 24 with professionals in paid maternity car in St. Petersburg (2015–2017). It is a significant and illustrative case within the broader trends in the Russian health care system of the 2000s–2010s. This article’s contribution…
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Medical Settings
While there is a substantive amount of literature on vulnerability of different kinds of patients in different settings, medical professionals are usually considered as the ones who possess power and gain a privileged position. In this paper, we aim to demonstrate that in a certain context physicians—a social group which is usually referred to as “powerful”—consider themselves vulnerable, and this positioning may influence patients in turn. This …
Creating health care consumers
Ten considerations for effectively managing the Covid-19 transition
Governments around the world have implemented measures to manage the transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). While the majority of these measures are proving effective, they have a high social and economic cost, and response strategies are being adjusted. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that communities should have a voice, be informed and engaged, and participate in this transition phase. We propose ten considerations…
Emotional styles in Russian maternity hospitals
This article explores emotional styles of Russian maternity hospitals and their recent changes. We focus on two emotional practices that characterise different emotional styles: the Soviet-associated emotional practice of khamstvo (rudeness) and the post-Soviet neoliberal practice of smiling. Emotional styles in healthcare in Russia have been transformed under childbearing women’s consumer demands and new professional standards. However, maternit…
The Academicians on Quarantine
The goal of this article is to analyze the challenges faced by social researchers during the first months of the pandemic of 2020 when work-life issues were problematized and academic routine changed. The article is based on a dataset of diaries in which researchers with an academic background in social sciences and humanities were fixing their everyday life and reflecting on its changes. We explore why academicians, a relatively privileged group…
Forum 52
For the past two years, research groups and universities have been exposed to the novel and unpredictable conditions of life during the viral pandemic, and to the constantly shifting restrictions on normal academic activities that have accompanied it. In particular, personal contacts—between teachers and students and between colleagues—have to a large extent been difficult or impossible. For some, the social restrictions have been a disaster, whi…
“Sociologists in White”
This article presents research reflections on the fieldwork conducted in a medical organization in Russia. We emphasize how our professional positioning in the field was changing as a result of the ethnographic immersion into the empirical work. Addressing the insider/outsider dilemma and testing some of the feminist principles of interactions with research participants, we find that we neither become “insiders” nor remain “outsiders” in the orga…
Changes in ageing women’s sexual subjectivity as seen from a life course perspective
This article explores the sexual subjectivity of women of post-reproductive age who seek partners on dating apps. The existing literature highlights the sexual subjectivity and agency of older women as contested and not sufficiently investigated. Even less research has been conducted on changes in the sexual subjectivity of women born in the USSR in the 1960s, with the liberalisation of sexual behaviour. The study is based on 45 interviews with w…
I continue to consult remotely
Institutional inconsistencies and professionals' hidden institutional work in Russian pandemic-affected healthcare
In recent years, medical sociology has produced a significant amount of publications about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical care provision and healthcare professionalism around the globe. This study builds on this line of research by looking at a rarely discussed case of pandemic management-the case of Russia's centralized and state-dominated medical sector. In our analysis, we focus on the organizational level and the institutiona…
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