Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture

In Unmaking Russia’s Abortion Culture (Vanderbilt University Press) Rivkin-Fish follows the rise of post-Soviet family planning institutions and the backlash they faced from nationalist critics. Anti-Western campaigns and anxieties about population decline make that work even harder, continuing to undermine the normalization of modern contraception. Through this fight over reproductive policy, Rivkin-Fish shows how questions of women’s autonomy can expose some of a society’s strongest ideological tensions.