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Book Talk • Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture
February 6 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Professor Michele Rivkin-Fish’s second book, Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture: Family Planning and the Struggle for a Liberal Biopolitics (Vanderbilt UP, 2025) traces the work of health professionals, writers, and activists who drove a revolution in Russian reproductive practices by enabling the routine use of abortion to be replaced with contraceptive habits. The book spans six-and-a-half decades of Soviet and post-Soviet history, beginning from the re-legalization of abortion in 1955 and extending through the second decade of the 21st century.
Michele Rivkin-Fish is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her work has examined Russia’s health care reforms, debates and policies on reproduction and demography, sex education, and the daily struggles of women and men to secure well-being among privatization and nationalism.
This event is open to the public. Registration is required. Light lunch will be provided.