M Rivkin-Fish
Biographic Data
| ID | 15031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Rivkin-Fish |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivkin-Fish |
| SIGNATURE | RIVKIN-FISH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3218-3326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia
We explore obstetrician-gynecologists' (ob-gyns') shifting involvement in late Soviet and post-Soviet reproductive politics and track broader political-economic dynamics of the profession's ambivalent relations with state demographic discourses. Soviet ob-gyns largely distanced themselves from explicitly pronatalist agendas. Post-soviet national politics of 'population renewal' and the neoliberalization of health care have significantly restructu…
On emotionalisation of public domains
While editing this collection of articles exploring the geographies and styles of emotionalisation of public domains, we observed a veritable eruption of emotionalised public discourse in real-time: the COVID-19 pandemic. On some level this was only natural, since the pandemic generates sickness, pain, suffering, the primordial fear of death, and a general sense of existential uncertainty. Without minimising the authentic experiences of suffering…
Creating health care consumers
‘Fight Abortion, Not Women’
This article traces the conceptual emergence and development of feminist-oriented abortion politics in urban Russia between 2011 and 2015. Examined as an example of local adaptions of global reproductive rights movements, Russians’ advocacy for abortion access reflects commitments and tensions characterising post-Soviet feminism. Specifically, I show how calls to preserve women’s access to legal abortion have drawn on both socialist-inspired idea…
Legacies of 1917 in Contemporary Russian Public Health
I examine the legacies of Soviet public health policy and the socialist health care system and trace how the Soviet past figures in contemporary Russian policymaking and debates about drug use, HIV, and abortion. Drug policies and mainstream views of HIV reflect continuities with key aspects of Soviet-era policies, although political leaders do not acknowledge these continuities in justifying their policies. In abortion policy, by contrast, which…
Blood. Dir. Alina Rudnitskaia. Brooklyn
Blood. Dir. Alina Rudnitskaia. Brooklyn: Icarus Films, 2013. 59 minutes. Black and white. $390.00, sale of DVD. - la zabudu etot den’. Dir. Alina Rudnitskaia. St. Petersburg: SPB Studia Dokumental’nykh Fil’mov, 2010. 25 minutes. Black and white. - Volume 75 Issue 1
Conceptualizing Feminist Strategies for Russian Reproductive Politics
This article explores the conceptual challenges of devising viable feminist strategies for reproductive politics in contemporary Russia. It analyzes three issues—abortion, surrogate motherhood, and family support politics—and the distinct cultural, historical, and institutional politics that make these issues sites of gendered inequality. Inspired by Nanette Funk’s argument that feminist critiques of Anglo-American liberalism cannot be readily ex…
Learning the Moral Economy of Commodified Health Care
Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family Support in Russia
This article examines the gendered consequences of linking family support to state pronatalist goals in contemporary Russia. By analyzing the policies, proposals, and critiques circulating on the maternity capital program, Michele Rivkin-Fish demonstrates how state power and citizenship are being constructed through struggles over the meanings of gender and family. She further argues that studies of Russian demographic politics must bring attenti…
Empowering Women in Russia
Tracing landscapes of the past in class subjectivity
The creation of class subjectivities is an important but understudied topic for social memory studies, particularly in former socialist contexts. Soviet policies generated fertile conditions for the intertwining of class subjectivity and popular memory by deploying the categories of "intelligentsia" and "worker" as reified, enduring, and oppositional groups and privileging these groups in contradictory and often hypocritical ways. In this article…
The Human Drama of Abortion
Moral Science and the Management of “Sexual Revolution” in Russia
Change Yourself and the Whole World Will Become Kinder
This article views reproductive health activism as a fruitful site for analyzing the cultural logics through which legitimate claims for women's needs become expressed and circumscribed. It begins from the observation that in the United States and Britain, reproductive health has been a key arena for feminist political claims and struggles for women's rights, bodily integrity, access to health care, and demands for authority in relations with exp…
Life Exposed
Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl. Adriana Petryna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvii. 264 pp
Anthropology, Demography, and the Search for a Critical Analysis of Fertility
The socialist and postsocialist contexts offer important challenges for anthropologists developing a critical analysis of fertility. The need for fertility studies to address class and gender inequities is often overlooked by postsocialist scholars, whose work is mired in responses to the socialist past and ongoing pronatalist campaigns. I examine the ways that fertility analysis has been used in national political struggles in Russia, and explai…
Altering States
Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Daphne Berdahl. Matti Bunzl. and Martha Lampland. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. vii. 252 pp., maps, photographs, references, index
Health Development Meets the End of State Socialism
Sexuality education in Russia
Bodytime
Bodytime: On the Interaction of Body, Identity, and Society. Susanne Lundin and Lynne Akesson. eds. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1996. 196 pp., notes, references
Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family Support in Russia
This article examines the gendered consequences of linking family support to state pronatalist goals in contemporary Russia. By analyzing the policies, proposals, and critiques circulating on the maternity capital program, Michele Rivkin-Fish demonstrates how state power and citizenship are being constructed through struggles over the meanings of gender and family. She further argues that studies of Russian demographic politics must bring attenti…
Altering States
Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Daphne Berdahl. Matti Bunzl. and Martha Lampland. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. vii. 252 pp., maps, photographs, references, index
Tracing landscapes of the past in class subjectivity
The creation of class subjectivities is an important but understudied topic for social memory studies, particularly in former socialist contexts. Soviet policies generated fertile conditions for the intertwining of class subjectivity and popular memory by deploying the categories of "intelligentsia" and "worker" as reified, enduring, and oppositional groups and privileging these groups in contradictory and often hypocritical ways. In this article…
Life Exposed
Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl. Adriana Petryna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvii. 264 pp
Anthropology, Demography, and the Search for a Critical Analysis of Fertility
The socialist and postsocialist contexts offer important challenges for anthropologists developing a critical analysis of fertility. The need for fertility studies to address class and gender inequities is often overlooked by postsocialist scholars, whose work is mired in responses to the socialist past and ongoing pronatalist campaigns. I examine the ways that fertility analysis has been used in national political struggles in Russia, and explai…
Health Development Meets the End of State Socialism
Sexuality education in Russia
Change Yourself and the Whole World Will Become Kinder
This article views reproductive health activism as a fruitful site for analyzing the cultural logics through which legitimate claims for women's needs become expressed and circumscribed. It begins from the observation that in the United States and Britain, reproductive health has been a key arena for feminist political claims and struggles for women's rights, bodily integrity, access to health care, and demands for authority in relations with exp…
Creating health care consumers
On emotionalisation of public domains
While editing this collection of articles exploring the geographies and styles of emotionalisation of public domains, we observed a veritable eruption of emotionalised public discourse in real-time: the COVID-19 pandemic. On some level this was only natural, since the pandemic generates sickness, pain, suffering, the primordial fear of death, and a general sense of existential uncertainty. Without minimising the authentic experiences of suffering…
Legacies of 1917 in Contemporary Russian Public Health
I examine the legacies of Soviet public health policy and the socialist health care system and trace how the Soviet past figures in contemporary Russian policymaking and debates about drug use, HIV, and abortion. Drug policies and mainstream views of HIV reflect continuities with key aspects of Soviet-era policies, although political leaders do not acknowledge these continuities in justifying their policies. In abortion policy, by contrast, which…
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia
We explore obstetrician-gynecologists' (ob-gyns') shifting involvement in late Soviet and post-Soviet reproductive politics and track broader political-economic dynamics of the profession's ambivalent relations with state demographic discourses. Soviet ob-gyns largely distanced themselves from explicitly pronatalist agendas. Post-soviet national politics of 'population renewal' and the neoliberalization of health care have significantly restructu…
Bodytime
Bodytime: On the Interaction of Body, Identity, and Society. Susanne Lundin and Lynne Akesson. eds. Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 1996. 196 pp., notes, references
Sexuality education in Russia
Health Development Meets the End of State Socialism
Altering States
Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Daphne Berdahl. Matti Bunzl. and Martha Lampland. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. vii. 252 pp., maps, photographs, references, index
Life Exposed
Life Exposed: Biological Citizenship after Chernobyl. Adriana Petryna. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xvii. 264 pp
Anthropology, Demography, and the Search for a Critical Analysis of Fertility
The socialist and postsocialist contexts offer important challenges for anthropologists developing a critical analysis of fertility. The need for fertility studies to address class and gender inequities is often overlooked by postsocialist scholars, whose work is mired in responses to the socialist past and ongoing pronatalist campaigns. I examine the ways that fertility analysis has been used in national political struggles in Russia, and explai…
Change Yourself and the Whole World Will Become Kinder
This article views reproductive health activism as a fruitful site for analyzing the cultural logics through which legitimate claims for women's needs become expressed and circumscribed. It begins from the observation that in the United States and Britain, reproductive health has been a key arena for feminist political claims and struggles for women's rights, bodily integrity, access to health care, and demands for authority in relations with exp…
Moral Science and the Management of “Sexual Revolution” in Russia
Empowering Women in Russia
Tracing landscapes of the past in class subjectivity
The creation of class subjectivities is an important but understudied topic for social memory studies, particularly in former socialist contexts. Soviet policies generated fertile conditions for the intertwining of class subjectivity and popular memory by deploying the categories of "intelligentsia" and "worker" as reified, enduring, and oppositional groups and privileging these groups in contradictory and often hypocritical ways. In this article…
The Human Drama of Abortion
Pronatalism, Gender Politics, and the Renewal of Family Support in Russia
This article examines the gendered consequences of linking family support to state pronatalist goals in contemporary Russia. By analyzing the policies, proposals, and critiques circulating on the maternity capital program, Michele Rivkin-Fish demonstrates how state power and citizenship are being constructed through struggles over the meanings of gender and family. She further argues that studies of Russian demographic politics must bring attenti…
Learning the Moral Economy of Commodified Health Care
Conceptualizing Feminist Strategies for Russian Reproductive Politics
This article explores the conceptual challenges of devising viable feminist strategies for reproductive politics in contemporary Russia. It analyzes three issues—abortion, surrogate motherhood, and family support politics—and the distinct cultural, historical, and institutional politics that make these issues sites of gendered inequality. Inspired by Nanette Funk’s argument that feminist critiques of Anglo-American liberalism cannot be readily ex…
Blood. Dir. Alina Rudnitskaia. Brooklyn
Blood. Dir. Alina Rudnitskaia. Brooklyn: Icarus Films, 2013. 59 minutes. Black and white. $390.00, sale of DVD. - la zabudu etot den’. Dir. Alina Rudnitskaia. St. Petersburg: SPB Studia Dokumental’nykh Fil’mov, 2010. 25 minutes. Black and white. - Volume 75 Issue 1
Legacies of 1917 in Contemporary Russian Public Health
I examine the legacies of Soviet public health policy and the socialist health care system and trace how the Soviet past figures in contemporary Russian policymaking and debates about drug use, HIV, and abortion. Drug policies and mainstream views of HIV reflect continuities with key aspects of Soviet-era policies, although political leaders do not acknowledge these continuities in justifying their policies. In abortion policy, by contrast, which…
‘Fight Abortion, Not Women’
This article traces the conceptual emergence and development of feminist-oriented abortion politics in urban Russia between 2011 and 2015. Examined as an example of local adaptions of global reproductive rights movements, Russians’ advocacy for abortion access reflects commitments and tensions characterising post-Soviet feminism. Specifically, I show how calls to preserve women’s access to legal abortion have drawn on both socialist-inspired idea…
Creating health care consumers
On emotionalisation of public domains
While editing this collection of articles exploring the geographies and styles of emotionalisation of public domains, we observed a veritable eruption of emotionalised public discourse in real-time: the COVID-19 pandemic. On some level this was only natural, since the pandemic generates sickness, pain, suffering, the primordial fear of death, and a general sense of existential uncertainty. Without minimising the authentic experiences of suffering…
Politicized Demography and Biomedical Authority in Post-Soviet Russia
We explore obstetrician-gynecologists' (ob-gyns') shifting involvement in late Soviet and post-Soviet reproductive politics and track broader political-economic dynamics of the profession's ambivalent relations with state demographic discourses. Soviet ob-gyns largely distanced themselves from explicitly pronatalist agendas. Post-soviet national politics of 'population renewal' and the neoliberalization of health care have significantly restructu…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Politics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Soviet and Russian History (7 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)