Michele Rivkin‐fish
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617875 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Rivkin‐fish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Rivkin‐fish |
| SIGNATURE | FISH M R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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
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
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
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…
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…
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
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…
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
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Soviet and Russian History (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)