Authors

Ekaterina Borozdina received her Candidate of Science degree in sociology from the European University at St. Petersburg in 2012. Her dissertation considered the interactions between obstetricians-gynecologists and their pregnant patients in the context of Russian healthcare reforms. She is a research fellow in the Gender Studies Program of the European University at St. Petersburg. Her current research interests include the professionalization of independent midwifery in Russia and the sociology of care (with an emphasis on midwifery practices).

Larisa Honey received her PhD in anthropology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2006. She is currently an assistant professor of anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. Her current research focuses on transnationalism, media, and gender in US–Russian political discourse, and a PSC–CUNY Research Award–supported ethnographic study on alternative health communities in New York City. Recent publications include “Media, Ideology, and Myths of East-West Difference: Constructing American Ideals through Images of a ‘Red-Hot’ Russian Spy” in the anthropology journal North American Dialogue (2013) and the chapter “Pluralizing Practices in Late-Socialist Moscow: Russian Alternative Practitioners Reclaim and Redefine Individualism” in the book Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, edited by Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (Lexington Books, 2012).

Anna Temkina holds a PhD in social sciences (University of Helsinki), and is the Novartis Chair in Public Health and Gender and codirector of the Gender Studies Program at the European University at St. Petersburg. Her areas of expertise include gender studies, reproductive health, sexuality, feminist theory, gender relations in Soviet and post-Soviet societies, and qualitative research methods. She is the author and coeditor of several books, among them Russia in Transition (Kikimora Publications, 1997; in English), In Search of Sexuality (Izdatel’stvo “Dmitrii Bulanin,” 2002; in Russian), Women’s Sexual Life: Between Subordination and Freedom (Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2008; in Russian), New Byt in Contemporary Russia: Gender Studies of Everyday Life (Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2009; in Russian), and Health and Trust: Gender Approach to Reproductive Medicine (Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2009; in Russian).

Alexandrina Vanke is a researcher and a lecturer at the Russian State University for the Humanities and at the State Academic University of the Humanities. In 2009 she graduated from the Sociology Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 2010 she obtained a master’s degree from the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University at St. Petersburg. In 2013 she completed her dissertation titled “Semantics of the Masculine Body in the Space of Social Distinctions” at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, receiving the degree of Candidate of Science in sociology. Her scientific interests include interdisciplinary research on the body and sexuality, collective emotions, and social memory. She also studies issues of working-class people and large social movements in Russia. She is currently a participant in two collaborative projects: “Historical Memory as the Social Space of Conflicts and Solidarity,” funded by the Council of the President of the Russian Federation for the Leading Research Groups of Russia, and “Soviet War Memorials in Eastern Europe and Victory Day,” supported by the Franco-Russian Center for Research in Moscow.

Elena Zdravomyslova is professor at the European University at St. Petersburg, where she is codirector of the Gender Studies Program, and project coordinator at the Centre for Independent Social Research. Her research and teaching fields include gender studies, women’s movements, and qualitative research methods. Her areas of expertise include gender relations in Russia, feminist theory, sociology of care, and biographical research. She is the author and coeditor of several books, including In Search of Sexuality (Izdatel’stvo “Dmitrii Bulanin,” 2002; in Russian), New Byt in Contemporary Russia: Gender Studies of Everyday Life (Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2009; in Russian), and Health and Trust: Gender Approaches to Reproductive Medicine (Izdatel’stvo EUSPb, 2009; in Russian).