Sexuality education in Russia: defining pleasure and danger for a fledgling democratic society

Rivkin‐Fish, Michele

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(99)00168-9

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“…Such a study can be a vital aid to understanding the normative factors that influence socially complex behaviours, such as the carrying and use of condoms, and can help illuminate the situational barriers that might prevent an intention from turning into actual action (FifeSchaw, 1997;Sheeran et al ., 1999). In doing so, it can also illustrate how the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be viewed as part of wider concerns over the costs of 'Western' sexual practices in post-Communist Europe (Headley, 1998;Rivkin-Fish, 1999), concerns which are themselves part of a broader debate on liberalization and social modernization across Europe (Rosenbrock et al ., 2000).…”

Section: Social Representations Of Hiv/aids In Five Central European mentioning

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“…Business people were selected as an economically significant group whose mobility, lifestyle and attitudes may make them likely to engage in particular, higher risk activities, and here we focus on risk associated with the sexual practice of these professional people (Barnett et al ., 2000). Social stereotypes influence health care professionals' commitment to treatment and prevention of infection (Echebarria & Páez, 1989;Markova & Wilkie, 1987;Morin et al ., 1996) and health care professionals were chosen as a group whose representations of the epidemic were likely to be highly influential in these transient societies (Nascimento-Schulze et al ., 1995;Rivkin-Fish, 1999). Both the groups studied in this study were raised and educated during the Soviet period, during which information about the sexual disease epidemic was couched in strong 'moral' overtones.…”

Section: The Theory Of Social Representationsmentioning

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Social representations of HIV/AIDS in five central European and eastern European countries: a multidimensional analysis

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Cognitive processing models of risky sexual behaviour have proliferated in the two decades since the first reporting of HIV/AIDS, but far less attention has been paid to individual and group representations of the epidemic and the relationship between these representations and reported sexual behaviours. In this study, 494 business people and medics from Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Poland and Russia sorted free associations around HIV/AIDS in a matrix completion task. Exploratory factor and multidimensional scaling analyses revealed two main dimensions (labelled 'Sex' and 'Deadly disease'), with significant cultural and gender variations along both dimension scores. Possible explanations for these results are discussed in the light of growing concerns over the spread of the epidemic in this region.

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Social representations of HIV/AIDS in five central European and eastern European countries: a multidimensional analysis

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“…Traditionalists, those on the other side, argue that sexual education contributes to the decline of morality, growth in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and demographic decline. (Snarskaya 2009;Rivkin-Fish 1999).…”

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The Sexual Scripts and Identity of Middle-Class Russian Women

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Здравомыслова

2015

Sexuality & Culture

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The purpose of this article is to provide an analysis of changes in the organization of sexual life among Russian women and to describe a spectrum of sexual scripts that characterize different generations. Based on biographical interviews with urban middle-class women we identify five such scripts of sexual life. On one hand, the analysis shows that representatives of the late Soviet generations are oriented towards the pronatal, romantic and friendship scripts of sexual relationships. Soviet women faced structural barriers in their sexual lives: gender inequality and lack of institutional provision of sexual practices. On the other hand, the analysis shows that the sexual culture of women belonging to the younger, postSoviet generation differs considerably from that of their (demographic) mothers and grandmothers, the women of the Soviet generations. Among the women belonging to the post-Soviet generation, the hedonistic and instrumental scripts become more articulate. The current rationalization trend in sexual life presumes women's conscious choice of sexual partners and reproductive strategies. Women are reflexive towards their sexual desire and represent agency, acting intentionally in order to control intimate relationships in which they are involved. However, young women also face numerous barriers caused by the lack of institutional reflexivity on sexuality and gender polarization.

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“…Later, an intervention study in six Russian cities failed to increase the likelihood of women receiving family planning counselling and showed that a number of opportunities for counselling were missed by health care workers (Sherwood-Fabre et al 2002). An ethnographic study from the mid-1990s revealed that a number of gynaecologists in St. Petersburg were actively engaged in educational activities to reduce the number of abortions, but that they promoted reliable birth control mostly to married couples and encouraged motherhood rather than reliable birth control (Rivkin-Fish 1999. Moral overtones and authoritative attitudes prevailed among gynaecologists during the 1990s (Client Perceptions 1998, Rivkin-Fish 2005.…”

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Pregnancy prevention, reproductive health risk and morality: a perspective from public-sector women's clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia

Larivaara

2010

Critical Public Health

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The use of reliable contraception in Russia remains lower and rates of induced abortion higher than in Western Europe, even though reliable contraception has been accessible for nearly two decades now. Due to the organisation of women's health services in Russian cities, gynaecologists can have a major influence on women's contraceptive choices, but little is known about their attitudes and practices in terms of contraception promotion. This study draws on qualitative observation and interview data of gynaecologists in public-sector women's clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city in order to investigate their perceptions of various birth control methods and contraception counselling. Also in focus are clinical counselling practices. The results reveal that gynaecologists in St. Petersburg had up-to-date knowledge of the latest contraception methods and that they were willing to promote their use. They took an active role in counselling, although the coverage was not full. The depth of counselling varied considerably and counselling practices were mainly paternalistic. Yet, in about a third of the observed cases, patient preferences were incorporated into clinical decision-making. The gynaecologists perceived reliable contraception essentially as a means of fostering future fertility and avoiding harmful health consequences of induced abortions. Using reliable contraception was equated with being a responsible and morally respectable woman. The results suggest that links between health, risk and morality are vividly present in contraception counselling in St. Petersburg, and that reliable contraception has become a powerful source of new moral demands for individual women to foster their reproductive function.

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Sexuality education in Russia: defining pleasure and danger for a fledgling democratic society

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Social representations of HIV/AIDS in five central European and eastern European countries: a multidimensional analysis

Social representations of HIV/AIDS in five central European and eastern European countries: a multidimensional analysis

The Sexual Scripts and Identity of Middle-Class Russian Women

Pregnancy prevention, reproductive health risk and morality: a perspective from public-sector women's clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia

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