Description: Examining both official health projects and informal daily practices, Michele Rivkin-Fish draws ethnographic and theoretical insights about the contested processes of interpreting and managing neo-liberal transitions in Russia and explores the challenges of bringing anthropological insights to public health interventions for women's empowerment.
Review Quotes:
"In Women's Health in Post-Soviet Russia, Michele Rivkin-Fish makes important contributions to the existing literatures on international health development, health care systems across cultures, gender and health, reproduction and nationalism, the anthropology of postsocialism, and fieldwork ethics. . ."--American Anthropologist
"[Michele Rivkin-Fish] sees . . . [one] way out of the crisis: only a democratic participatory approach could greatly affect the situation in the health sector.3 2010"--Laboratorium