Description: The central importance of reproductive health and abortion in the competition over Russia's political and cultural liberalization or nationalist revival
Brief description: Michele Rivkin-Fish is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Review Quotes:
"This fascinating modern history illustrates how state-sponsored, religiously orthodox pronatalism in Russia has limited access to birth control and safe abortion--causing both women and family planning advocates to suffer. An important cautionary tale about why punitive reproductive regimes and illiberal-nationalist visions matter so greatly in the world today."
--Marcia C. Inhorn, author of Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs