Curriculum vitae
Temkina Anna. September 19, 1960.
CURRENT
European University at St. Petersburg, professor, PhD social sciences
OFFICE:
European University at St Petersburg 191187 St. Petersburg, ul. Gagarinskaia, 3. Tel.
812-275-5133, fax 812-2755139, e-mail temkina@eu.spb.ru; atemkina@gmail.com
EDUCATION (ACADEMIC HISTORY)
Graduate: State University, Leningrad, Department of Economy, 1983.
PhD defended in 1997, University of Helsinki, “Russia in Transition: The Case of
New Collective Actors and New Collective Actions”.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH AFFILIA TION
Institute of Socio-Economic Problems, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 19831989.
Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of Russia, 1989 - 1997.
TEACHING
2011-2012. Module “Reproductive and sexual health: gender dimension”, Module
“Doctor-patient encounters: theoretical and empirical approaches”, course “Health and illness
as the social problem of Russian society”. Center for social and political science education,
Institute of sociology”, Moscow (Russia)
2010-2012. “Introduction in Social Theory” (Intensive course, EHU, Vilnius (Lithuania)
2011. Module ”Gender ideology: paternalism vs. Liberalism”, Winter contact session
“Ideology and History of Social Policy in post-Soviet Space”, (Re)vision of Social Policy in
Post-Soviet Space: ideologies, actors and cultures: a series of teaching seminars and summer
schools for teachers and graduate students from regional institutions of higher education in
the CIS and Baltic states, Moscow (Russia)
2009 - 1996. European University at St.Petersburg “Social Theory in Gender
Perspective” , “Feminist Theory”, “Field Research” (Russian programm), “Gender Culture in
Contemporary Russia”, “Field Research” (International MA Program, in English)
2009. Course “Gender and Health”, Saratov Technical University
2009, 2005, 2002, 2000. University of Joensuu, “Gender Issues in Contemporary
Russia” 20 h. course in English, International Study Program “Karelia, Russia and Baltic
Area”
2009. EGU “Traditions in Sociological Thought|”, Vilnius, 2003, 2001 EGU
Qualitative Method of Research” (Minsk)
2005 – 1997. Summers schools’ courses on gender in Kyrgystan, Armenia, Ukraine,
Samara, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Tarusa, Tver’, Taganrog
2002. University of Helsinki, Kristina-Institute “Gender Order and Sexuality”
1996. University of Helsinki and University of Tampere. “Society and Politics in
Contemporary Russia”.
1995. University of Helsinki. “Social Movements in Contemporary Russia”.
PUBLICATION (SELECTED)
Author and editor:
The issue of ”Laboratorium” (on gender issues), 2010-2011
Health and Intimate Life: Sociological Approaches, ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and
A.Temkina. SPb: EUSOb, 2012
Practices and Identities: gender arrangement, ed. by V. Pasynkova, A.Temkina,
O.Tkach and E. Zdravomyslova. SPb: EUSOb, 2010
A.Temkina. Sexual Life of Women: Between Subordination and Freedom. SPb:
EUSPb. 2008
A.Temkina. Russia in Transition: The Case of New Collective Actors and New
Collective Actions. Helsinki: Kikimora publication. 1997 (in Eng)
Health and Intimate Life: Sociological Approaches, ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and
A.Temkina. SPb: EUSOb, 2012.
Health and Trust: Gender Approach to Reproductive Medicine, ed. by
E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb: EUSPb, 2009,
New Everyday Live in Russia: Gender Approach, ed. by A. Rotkirch,
E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb: EUSPb, 2009.
Russian Gender Order: Sociological Approach, ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and
A.Temkina. SPb: EUSPb, 2007
In Search of Sexuality, ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb:
D.Bulanin.2002
Handbook of Feminist Texts. Translations, ed. by E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina.
SPb: D.Bulanin 2000
Gender Dimension of Social and Political Activity, ed by E.Zdravomyslova and
A.Temkina. SPb: TsNSI 1996
Reference Book on the Labor Movement in St.Petersburg, ed. by A.Temkina SPb:
1994
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The Gender Question in Contemporary Russia // Global dialogue 3 (1)
Sexual Therapy in Russia: Pleasure and Gender in a New Professional Field // The
Cultural Context of Sexual Pleasure and Problems: Psychotherapy with diverse clients, ed.
Kathryn Hall & Cynthia Graham. Routledge, 2012, p. 228-240 (coauth with Anna Rotkirch
and Elina Haavio-Mannila).
Confidential co-operation in doctor-patient interaction: the view of obstetriciangynecologist // Health and Intimate Life: Sociological Approaches, ed. E.Zdravomyslova and
A.Temkina. SPb: EUSOb, 2012, p. 23-54 (coauth with E. Zdravomyslova).
Introduction. Gender, Health, Medicine and Intimate Life // Health and Intimate Life:
Sociological Approaches, ed. Zdravomyslova E. & Temkina A. SPb: EUSOb, 2012. p. 6-22
(coauth with E. Zdravomyslova).
Sexologists talking about health, pleasure, gender // Health and Intimate Life:
Sociological Approaches, ed. E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb: EUSPb, 2012, p. 155178 (coauth with A. Rotkirch).
Contraceptive practices of Russian women: (un)safety and medicalization // Health
and Intimate Life: Sociological Approaches, ed. E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb:
EUSPb, 2012, p. 210-240
Everyday romantic discourse in Russia: stability for women and status for men //
Love in our Time – A question for feminism, ed. S. Strid and A. Jonasdottir GEXcel Work in
progress, Report Vol. 9 Orebro 2011, p. 79-85
”Maternal Capital”: Social Policy and Families’ Strategies // Genderpage.ru,
November 2011 (URL: http://genderpage.ru/?p=481); Demoscope weekly, № 495-496,
January 23 – February 5 2012 (URL: http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2012/0495/analit03.php).
Both coauth with E. Borozdina and E. Zdravomyslova.
Here is your money, just try to take it. Strategies of using of maternal capital //
Chastnyy correspondent. 6th of December, 2011 (URL:
http://www.chaskor.ru/article/vot_tvoi_dengi_tolko_poprobuj_ih_vzyat_26004). Coauth with
E. Borozdina and E. Zdravomyslova.
Premarital Virginity as the Cultural Code in Armenian Gender Order //
Laboratorium, 2010, №1, p.129-159
Childbearing and Work-Family Balance among contemporary Russian women //
Finish yearbook of Population Research, 2010, XLV, p. 83-103
The Father Who Participates in Childbirth. Gender Partnership or Situation
Control? Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia (Web of Science), 2010, Vol. 49 (2), p. 943 (coauth with E. Angelova).
Review on book Janet Elise Johnson. Gender Violence in Russia. The Politics of
Feminist Intervention. Bloomington and Indianapolis. Indiana University Press, Slavic
Review, 2009, vol. 69 (2)
Is Patriarchy over? The Issues of Power of the “Second Sex // Gender for Beginners 2’- second edition (coauthored with E.Zdravomyslova). M: Zven’ya 2009, p. 25-42
Homo Sexualis and Modernity. Is Sexual Revolution finished? // Gender for
Beginners -2’- second edition (coauthored with I. Kon). M: Zven’ya 2009, p.137-162
“I do not Trust to Doctors”, but…. “ Trust in Reproductive Medicine // Health and
Trust, ed. E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. EUSPb, 2009. (coauth with E.Zdravomyslova)
p.179-210
Introduction. Gender Approach in the Research of Reproductive Behavior // Health
and Trust, ed. E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. EUSPb, 2009. (coauth with
E.Zdravomyslova) p. 7-18
New Russian Women and Sexual Biographies // In Gender, Sexuality and Global
Change, Conference of Workshops, 2008 p.45-51 (in Eng)
Soviet Style Gender Modernization vs Traditional Scenarios of Sexual Life // Ab
Imperio, 2008, N 3, p. 243-287
Private Sphere as Sphere of Love and Labor. Introduction. // New Everyday
Live in Russia: Gender Approach, ed. A. Rotkirch, E.Zdravomyslova and
A.Temkina. EUSPb, 2009. (coauth with E.Zdravomyslova and A.Rotkirch) p. 7-30
New Everyday Live: Sexuality and Gender Revolution // New Everyday Live
in Russia: Gender Approach, ed. A. Rotkirch, E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina.
EUSPb, 2009, p. 33-67
Father and Delivery: Partnership or Control? // New Everyday Live in
Russia: Gender Approach, ed. A. Rotkirch, E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina.
EUSPb, 2009. p. 473-507 (coauth with E Angelova)
Patients in Contemporary Russian Reproductive Health Care Institutions. Strategies
of Establishing Trust. In: Democratizatiya 2008, V 3, N 3, p.277-293 (coauth with
E.Zdravomyslova , in Eng)
C.Harris. Control and Subversion: Gender Relations in Tajikisnan (2004). Gender
and History, 2008, V. 20, Is 1, p. 198-201 (in Eng)
Who Helps the Degraded Housewives? EJWS, 2007, V.14, p. 349-357 (coauth with
E.Zdravomyslovaand A.Rotkirch, in Eng)
Gender and Women’s Studies in Contemporary Russia // Marlen Bidwell-Steiner,
Karin S. Wozonig (Hg.): A Canon of Our Own? Kanonkritik und Kanonbildung in den
Gender Studies. Wien, Innsbruck: Studienverlag 2006 (=Gendered Subjects III), s. 240-253
(coauthored with E.Zdravomyslova, in Eng)
History and Modernity: Gender Order in Russia// Gender for Beginners. M. 2006
(coauth with E.Zdravomyslova), p. 55-84
Social Construction of Sexuality // Gender for Beginners. M. 2006 (coauth. with
E.Zdravomyslova), p.161-178
Gendered Citizenship in Soviet and Post-Soviet societies // Vera Tolz and Stephanie
Booth (eds.), Gender and Nation in Contemporary Europe (Manchester: Manchester.
University Press, 2005, coauth with E/Zdravomyslova), p.96-115. In Russian 2004., 2003
Gender Order: Post Soviet Transformation // Gender: Tradition and Modernity/
Dushanbe. 2005, p 6-91.
Structural Constructivist Approach in Gender Studies // Sociology of Gender
Relations. Handbook. ROSPEN. 2004, p. 80-98 (coauth with E/Zdravomyslova)
'Happy Marriage' of Gender Studies and Biographical Research in Contemporary
Russian Social Sciences // Geschlechterkonteuktionan in Ostund Wes5 / Ed, by I.Miethe, C.
Kajatin, Jana Pohl Lit Verlag: Munster, 2004 (coauth with E/Zdravomyslova, in Eng)
The Development of Feminist Organisations in St.Petersburg 1985-2003. In
Between Sociology and History. Essays on Microhistory, Collective Actions, and NationBuilding. Ed by A-M. Castren, M.Lonkilla and M. Peltonen, 2004, p. 207-226 (coauth with J.
Brygalina, in Eng)
Sexual Live in Soviet Marriage // Family: Models for Construction., ed. by
Oushakine M. NLO, 2003, p 515-547
Gender Studies in Post-Soviet Society: Western Frames and Cultural Differences //
Studies in East European Thought. 2003, V. 55, p.51-61. (in Eng)
The Construction of Sexual Pleasure in Women’s Biographies // Humphrey R, Miller
R, Zdravomyslova E. (eds)/ Biographical Research in Eastern Europe. Altered Lives and
Broken Biographies. Ashgate, 2003, p. 299-320. (in Eng)
Institutionalization of Gender Studies in Russia: Issues and Strategies
//Gender in Teaching and Didactics. Frankfurt: Perelang. 2003, p.1-17 (coauth with
E. Zdravomyslova, in Eng)
Pietarilaisen Feminismin Muodonmuutoksset // Idantutkimus, 2002, N 4, p.
2002 (coauth with E. Zdravomyslova, in Finnish).
Russian Transformation and Sexual Live (Introduction) // In Search of
Sexuality, ed. E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. 2002, SPb: Izd-vo D Bulanin, p. 723. (coauth with E.Zdravomyslova)
Sexual Scripts and Gender Differences // In Search of Sexuality, ed.
E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. EUSPb, 2002, . p 247-286
Feministische Ubersetzung in Russland, Anmerkungen von Koautoren // Russische
Kultur und Gender Studies / Hrs. E.Cheaure & C.Heyder. Osteuropaforschung. Band 43.
Berlin Verlag. 2002 p. 15-34 (coauth with E.Zdravomyslova, in German).
About Women’s Pleasure: Sexuality and Identity // Michel Foucault and Russia, ed.
By O.Kharkhordin SPb: EUSPb 200,1 p. 316- 347.
Gender Study and Civic Culture in Contemporary Russia // Education and Civic
Culture in Post-Communist Countries. Ed. by S.Webber abd I.Liikanen. Palgrave. 2001, p.
142-150. (in Eng)
Political Participation by Russian Women in the Transitional Period (1985-) //
Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Movement. Ed. by N.Nooan and C.Nachemias.
Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut. London. p 304-307 (coauthored with
E.Zdravomyslova, in Eng)
Die Krise der Mannlichkeit im Alltagsdiskurs. Wandel der Geschlechterordnung in
Russland // Berliner Debatte Initial. 2001 V. 12: 4, s..78-90 (coauthored with
E.Zdravomyslova, in German). In Russian: 2002 // About Masculinity. NLO p. 432-451
Intitutionalization of Gender Studies in Russia // Gender Kaleidoscope. Lectures. Ed
by M. Malysheva M. Academia. 2001, p. 33-51 (coauth with E Zdravomyslova)
Social Construction of Gender: Feminist Theory // Introduction to Gender Studies,
part 1. / Ed by I. Zherebkina. Kharkov, KhTsGI, 2001, p. 147-173 (coauth with E
Zdravomyslova)
Feminist Critical Epistemology of Sociology of Gender // Social Construction of
Gender: Feminist Theory // Introduction to Gender Studies, part 1. / Ed by I. Zherebkina.
Kharkov, KhTsGI, 2001, p. 174-196 (coauth with E Zdravomyslova)
Women’s Movement of the Second Wave // Introduction to Gender Studies, part 1. /
Ed by I. Zherebkina. Kharkov, KhTsGI, 2001, p. 664-697
Sexual Scripts in Women’s Biographies and the Construction of Sexual Pleasure //
Models of Self. Russian Women’s Autobiographical Texts. Lijestrom M., Rosenholm A,
Savkina I (eds). Kikimora Publ. Series B: 18. Helsinki. 2000, p. 187-206, in Eng)
Gender Identity Construction: Methods of Interview Analysis // Gender Studies. 2000
N 5. p. 211-225 (coauth with E Zdravomyslova)
Sociology of Gender and Gender Approach in Sociology // Sociological Research
2000 № 11. p. 15-24 (coauth with E Zdravomyslova)
Feminist Translation. Text and Author. Introduction // Handbook of Feminist Texts.
Translations. ed. E.Zdravomyslova and A.Temkina. SPb: D.Bulanin, p. 5-28 .
Russian Workers. The Anatomy of Patience (S.Aushwin, review) // Europe-Asia
Studies. 2000 V.52, N.2. p. 381-383
Sexual Scripts and Pleasure Construction in Women’s Biographies // Gender Studies
1999.. N 3. p. 125-150.
Women’s Studies and Gender Studies in the West and Russia // Social Sciences and
Modernity 1999. N 6, p.177-185 (coauth with E Zdravomyslova),
Collective Actions in Women’s Movement // Social Movements in Contemporary
Russia. Ed by V. Kostushev. M. IS RAN 1999, p 65-83
Social Construction of Gender // Sociological Journal, N 3-4, 1998, p.171-182.
(coauth with E Zdravomyslova).
Yhteistyo - yhteinen mahdollisuutemme // Idantutkimus. N 1, 1998, p. 43-46 (coauth
with E Zdravomyslova, in Finnish).
Russland als Transformationsgessellschaft: Konzepte und Diskussionen. //
Sozialwissenschaft in Russland. Deutsch-russisches Monitoring. Bd.2, s 10-57 (coauth with
Grigor’ev, in Geman). In Russian: 1998.
Soviet Gender Contracts and Their Shifts in Contemporary Russia // Idantutkimus. N
4, 1997, p.6-24 (сoauth with A.Rotkirch, in Eng), in Russian: 2007, 2003, 2002
Women’s Movement as a Social Movement: History and Theory // Gender Notebook
SPb: SPb IS ed. By A. Kletsin p 94-125, 1997, 1999, 2004
Social Construction of Gender and Gender System in Russia , ed. by A.Temkina and
E.Zdravomyslova. SPb:TsNSI, 1996, p 5-12.
October Demonstration in Russia: From Institutional to Collective Action. //
Idantutkimus. 1996, N 2, p.6-22 (coauth with E.Zdravomyslova, in Eng).
What Does the (Russian) Woman Want? - Woman Psychoanalysts Talk (coauth). //
Woman's Voices in Russia Today. Ed by Rotkirch, A and Haavio-Mannila, E. Dartmouth.
1995, p 49-70 (couth with A Rotkirch, in Eng)
Entering Politics: Women's Ways, Gender Ideas and Contradictions of Reality//
Women's Voices in Russia Today. Ed by Rotkirch, A and Haavio-Mannila, E. Dartmouth.
1995, p 206-234 (in Eng) In Russian: 1996, 2004
The Labor Movement in Post-Soviet Russia // Social Sciences and Modernity. 1993,
N 3, p.31-43 (coauth with L.Gordon).
What is Following? The Crisis of the Labor Movement in the Context of its Basic
Tendencies.// Gordon L. Essays of the Labor Movement in Post-Soviet Russia. Moscow.
Institute of the World Economy. 1993, p.65-76 (coauth with L.Gordon).
The Problem of Advancing Industrial Democracy in a Post-Socialist State//
Economic and Industrial Democracy. International Journal. 1993, V.14, p. 29-42 (in Eng)
The Labor Movement: The Development and Contradictions // Social Structures and
Social Actors. Moscow, Institute of Sociology. 1992, p. 106-124.
The Development of Social Movements: a Conflict Model.// The Sociology of Social
Movements: Conceptual Models. The Research of Social Movements of 1989-1990.
Moscow. Institute of Sociology. 1992
From Nomenclature to the Ruling Elite// VIP. N 6. (coauth with O Vite, in Eng).
The Workers' Movement in Leningrad 1986-91 // Soviet Studies, V.44, N 2, p.209236. 1992 (in Eng).
The Social Base of Economic Reform in the USSR // Sociological Research. Jan.Feb. V.31, N 1. (in Eng). Labor and Democracy in the Transition to a Market System. A USPost-Soviet Dialogue. ed. by Bertram Silverman, Robert Vogt, M.Yanovich. p. 106-124.
1992 (in Eng).
The Labour Movement of the Perestroika Period. // Russia and the World. UK.. Is.
20, 1991 (in Eng)
The Social Movements: Spontaneity and Organization.// Perestroika: A New Social
Phenomenon. Leningrad. 1989
Several Tendencies in the Development of Self-Management.// Perestroika and the
Sociology of Labour. Kyibushev 1989 .
Author of more than 150 research articles, reviews, reports and other
publications.
CONFERENCES PARTICIPATION (SELECTED)
2012. Roundtable discussion titled “Sociology in action”, Anniversary conference of
the faculty of sociology HSE, Moscow, Russia
2012. 19th international symposium “Ways of Russia: new languages of social
description. (Paper presented “Policy of support for motherhood in Russia: gender effects”),
Moscow, Russia
2012 Participation in the discussion titled “Rethinking the Self: Transnational and
Transdisciplinary Bioethical and Biopolitical Concerns”, Helsinki, Finland
2012. Conference “Care: useful category of sociological analysis?”. (Paper presented
“Medicalization of contraception and self-care”), European University in St. Petersburg, Saint
Petersburg, Russia
2012. Conference “Complex Gaze at a Complex World: Challenges of comparison in
social research Presentation”. (Paper presented “How to conceptualize post-Soviet gender
order in comparative perspective” together with Elena Zdravomyslova), European University
at St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2012. Conference “Subjective senses of illness: by the way to narrative medicine”.
(Paper presented “Construction of obstetrician-gynecologist’ professional position”). Samara,
Russia
2012. Conference “Emotions and capitalism”. (Paper presented «Rationalization of
Self in private life in contemporary Russia: life project which hardly could be implemented”),
Berlin
2011. Workshop “Family, Health and Reproduction – In the Intersection between the
Public and the Private”. (Paper presented “Gynecologist’s gaze on women’s health in
Russia”), Sweden, Stockholm
2011. Chair session “Sociology of health and medicine”, at the 10th ESA conference
titled “Social relations in turbulent times”. (Paper presented “Reproductive and Sexual
Health: Medical Promotion and Women’s Resistance in Contemporary Russia”), Genève,
Switzerland
2011. 4th International conference by Russian Women’s History Research
Association titled “Private and public: boundaries, content, policies, interpretations in Past
and in Present. (Paper presented “New Russian female patient: challenge for medical
paternalism”), Yaroslavl, Russia
2011. Conference “Maternal capital: realization of demographic policy in Russia”.
(Paper presented “Child birth and childrearing: new rationality and social/family policy”),
European University at St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2011. Roundtable discussion titled “Gender policy in Russia during last three years:
problems, tendencies, prospects” held by Institute for Collective Action and Heinrich Böll
Stiftung. (Paper presented “Gender effects of up-to-date policy of support for motherhood”).
Moscow, Russia
2010. Workshop 24-- Family, Health and Reproduction. (Paper presented “Gender
Contracts, Inequality and Fertility”), Soderton (Sweden)
2010. XI International Conference On the Problems of Economics and Society.
(Paper presented “Gender Contracts and Fertility in Contemporary Russia), HSE, Moscow
(Russia)
2010. 4th Sociological Hearing “Sociology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”.
(Paper presented “Reproductive Practices of Young Generation: Family Planning, (Un)Safe
Sex and Responsible Motherhood”), St. Petersburg (Russia)
2010. Conference “Social policy in a context of transformation of Russia’ society:
reforms and everyday life”, HESP Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching, ReSET.
(Paper presented “Contraceptive practices of youth: between everyday and medical
perspective”), Moscow, Russia
2010. Final workshop with the regional and St. Petersburg participants of the project
“Gender arrangement of private life in Russia”. (Paper presented “Reproductive practices:
professional and everyday discourses”), St. Petersburg, Russia
2010. VIII World Congress 2010, ICCEES, Organization of panel “Private Life in
Contemporary Russia: Gendered Practices and Policies”. (Paper presented “Reproductive
practices of Young Men and Women in Russia: Risk and Control”), Stockholm, Sweden
2010. International conference “Youth solidarities 21 century: New styles. Spaces.
Practices. (Paper presented “Reproductive practices and health”), Ul’yanovsk, Russia
2010. Final workshop with the regional and St. Petersburg participants of the project
St. Petersburg. (Paper presented (co-author) “Doctor-patient encounters: egalitarian and
authoritarian trust"), Russia
2010. Workshop “Attitude toward health and culture. (Paper presented (co-author)
“Doctor-patient encounters in reproductive health”), French College St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 The GEXcel Conference of Workshops on Research Theme 10: Love in Our
Time – a Question for Feminism. (Paper presented “Everyday life romantic discourse in
Russia: stability for women (who do not expect a prince on the white horse) and status for
men (who expect a princess)”), Örebro University, Sweden.
2010. 15th German-Russian Debate „Population decline: changes in family and
social structure”. (Paper presented “Gender roles, modern family and reproductive
strategies”), Berlin, Germany
2010. Conference “Gender policy on different levels”. (Paper presented “Gender contracts,
childbirth and fathers role negotiation”), St. Petersburg, Russia
2009. Conference on “Social and Economic Problem of Health and Health Care in
Russia”. (Paper “The Reproductive Health: Trust and Gender Identity”), HSE, St. Petersburg
(Russia).
2009. First DiaDem Conference, German Russia Dialog on Demography. (Plenary
report “Gender System and Fertility in Russia: Past and Present”), Berlin (Germany)
2009. 40th Anniversary Conference of the University of Joensuu “Europe beyond the
East-West Division”. (Key note speaker “Nationality, Gender and Sexuality in the PostSoviet Societies: Transparent Boundaries between Traditionalism and Modernity”)
2009. ISA Annual Conference “Exploring Past, Anticipation Future, Feminist Ideas
Travelling.” (Report ”Transnational Practices and Academic Collaboration in the Field of
Gender Studies in Russia and Sweden”, E Svedberg. E Zdravomyslova, A Temkina, G
Karlsson), New York
2008. 2 International Conference Sexualities II, (Report “ Post-Soviet Sexual
Biographies of Women: New Challenges”), Nitra, Slovakia
2008. Conference of Workshops, Global, Sexuality and Global Change (Paper “New
Russian Women and Sexual Biographies”), Orebro, Sweden
2007. A Gender Symposium : Gender, Empire, and the Politics of Central and
Eastern Europe” CEU, Hungary, (Paper “Gender Studies in Russia: Transnational
Autonomization and Local Integration”)
2007. Conference: “Context, Constraints and Choices: Health in Eastern Europe and
Eurasia,” Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies (CREEES) University of
Texas at Austin, (Report The “Trust Problem” in Research on Transformation of the
Reproductive Healthcare in Russia”, coauth).
2006. ESF Research conference on Intersectionality, Identity and Power, (Comment
on the report M.Liljestrom “Geopolitics and Intersectionality: Feminist Knowledge
production in Russia and Finland”), Vadstena, Sweden
2006. Third seminar of the Nordplus Neighbors, (Report “Doctor-Patient
Relationship; Distrust and Trust Substitutions”). Helsinki,
2006. Eastern Boundaries, Money and Gender: a Workshop Exploring Shifting
Locations of Identity and Difference on the European Peripheries, UK, Manchester,
2006. DGO Annual Conference : Changes in Society’s and State Values” (Report:
“Feminist Movement: Between Mobilization and Apathy”), Marburg
2006. Workshop “Freedom/ Comparative Ethnography (Report “Gender, Generation
and Sexual Health”). Copenhagen (Fredenborg), NECEN
2005. International conference “Canon of Our Own?” (Report “Women and Gender
Studies in Russia” (coauth)). University of Vienna
2005. 37 World Congress Stockholm. Special session. “Hostesses of the World:
Gender, Power and Sex”. (Plenary report “Gender, Modernity and Tradition(alism) in the
Soviet and Post-Soviet Transformations”)
2004. Conference “Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies”..
(Report “Development of Gender Studies in Russia”), Linkoping, Sweden
2004. European Social Science History Conference, (report “Late Soviet Sexuality:
Discursive and Everyday Regulation”), Berlin
2003. Workshop “Reproductive Health and Fertility”, (Paper “Fertility, Love and
Sex. Transformations in Sexual Scripts”), St.Petersburg, MAPO
2002. Workshop Alexanderiin institute ( Report “Tranformafion of Sexuality: from
Late-Soviet to Post-Soviet”), Helsinki,
2002. Workshop “Otherness in Russian Social Science” (Report “Dialogue between
the object and the researcher: macro and micro context”), Helsinki,
2001. International Conference “Memory and Pleasure” (Paper “The Construction of
Pleasure in Women’s Sexual Biographies”) The Sodertorn hogskola, Sweden
2001. 5th European Sociological Association Conference “Vision and Division”,
Biographical Perspective on European Societies Research Network. (Paper “Women’s
Identity and (In)Equality in Sexual Biographies”), Helsinki
2001. Russian-Norvegian Seminar “Body Battle”, (Paper “ Scripts of Sexuality in
Biographies of Contemporary Russian Women”), SPb
2000. Conference on Democratization in Post-Authoritarian Countries, (Paper
“Gender Studies in Post-Soviet Society: Western Frames and Cultural Differences”), USA,
Ann Arbor
1999. 4th European Sociological Congress, Amsterdam. (Report “Scripts of women’s
sexual biographies”)
1999. Conference on Women’s Biographies, Helsinki. (Report “Construction of
Sexuality in Women’s Biographies”)
1998. 2d Germany German-Russian seminar. Moscow, Gender Difference in Cultural
Studies (Report “Women and Gender Studies in Contemporary Russia”)
1998. Conference “Civic Culture and Education”, London, (Report “Gender Study
and Civic Culture”)
1998. Workshop Changes in Everyday Life and Institutional Changes, Finland, Univ.
of Helsinki. (Report “Frames of Sexual Life and Social Construction of Gender”)
1997. 1st Regional Conference on Social Movements. (Report "New Collective
Actors and the Problems of their Interpretations"), Tel-Aviv
1997. Conference "Use and Abuse of Classics in Social Theory" (Report
"Sociological Classics and Feminist Epistemology"). St.Petersburg
1996. Seminar on Contemporary Changes in Russia and their Interpretations. (Report
"Interpretation of Social Transformation in Russia"), Berlin
1995. ISSR Conference (Report "Women's Political Activity in Contemporary
Russia"), Bordo
1995. Seminar. Woman's Voices in Russia (Report "Entering Politics: Women's
Ways”), Helsinki.
1993. Seminar "Party Formation in Eastern Europe." NSSR (Report: "The Formation
of New Parties in Post-Soviet Russia."), USA.
1992. Conference "New Liberal Strategies: Latin America, Eastern Europe." (Report:
"New Social Actors in the Transition Period in Russia.), Brazil.
1992. Conference "USA and CIS: The Perspective of the Development of the Labor
Relation." (Report: "The Labor Movement: Development and Contradictions"). USA, Hofstra
Univ.
1991. Colloquium in Free Univ. of Berlin (Report: "The Contradictions of
Contemporary Labor Movement"), Germany.
Participated in more than 100 academic conferences, seminars, congresses.
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
2012. Conference “Maternal capital: realization of demographic policy in Russia”,
European University at St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg (Russia)
2012. International workshop “Care: useful category of sociological analysis?”,
European University at St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg (Russia)
2011. 4th International conference “Private and public: boundaries, content, policies,
interpretations in Past and in Present” held by Russian Women’s History Research
Association. Leading section “Policies of female health construction”, Yaroslavl (Russia)
2010. EUSP conference "VDNH-4", presentation “Practices and Identities: gender
arrangement” (Collection of articles), St. Petersburg (Russia)
2009. Workshop “Gender Arrangements of Private Life in Contemporary Russia”, Gender
Program (GP) EUSPb
2009. Workshop “Organization of reproductive healthcare in different regions of
Russia”, organizer and participant, Kazan (Russia)
2007. Conference “New Russian Women and Sexual /Reproductive Health”, GP
EUSPb
2006. Co-director Nordic Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
PhD courses. Course “Transnational Feminism and Local Perspectives: Theories, Practices
and Analytical Approaches, St.Petersburg
2005-06. Workshops “Sexuality and Reproductive Practices” (GP EUSPb)
2004. “Round table” “Gender and Poverty” (GP EUSPb and Leont’ev Center)
2001. Workshop “Methods of Gender Research” (GP EUSPb )
2000. 4th conference “Gender and Sexuality: Theories and Empirical Research” (GP
EUSPb )
2000. International Conference “Women’s Strategies in Transitional Societies” (GP
and Nevskii Institute)
2000. 3rd conference GP EUSPb “Gender Relations in Contemporary Russia”
1999. 2nd conference GP EUSPb “Gender Research in 1990-es”
1998. 1st conference GP EUSPb “Methodology of Gender Studies”
MAJOR GRANTS
“Professional Mobility of the Gender Program Graduates” (Initiative Project),
coordinator (2009-2010)
Research project “Maternal capital: realization of demographic policy in Russia”,
(supported by Novartis AG and Heinrich Böll Stiftung), organizer (2011-12)
Research project “Institutional reform in reproductive sphere”, co-supported by Boell
Foundation, coordinator (2011)
Research grant “Gender Arrangements of Private Life in Contemporary Russia”,
Ford Foundation, co-director (2008-2012). Sub-project “The Issues of Reproductive Health”
(Kazan’, Samara. Arkhangelsk), organizer.
Research grant “New Forms of Cohabitation: Young Generation”, Boell Foundation,
co-director (2009-2011)
Research fellowship program at CEU, project “New Russian Women and Sexual
/Reproductive Health Care” (2008)
Curriculum Resource Center, CEU, the project “Gender Curricula in Russia:
Iinformal Input and Formalization“, participant (2007-2008)
Research grant “Discrimination in the Sphere of Reproductive Rights,” Boell
Foundation, consultant (2006-2007)
Research grant “New Everyday Life in Russia,” Academy of Finland, (2005-2007)
Network’ participant “Gender Studies in Transnational Context.” Norfa, (2005-2007)
Research grant “Non-Traditional Threats to Russia's Security”, Carnegie
Corporation of New York B7819, (Georgetown University), subproject «Health and
(In)Security in Russia: Discourses and Practices of Health Care ». (Reproductive health and
sexuality) (2005-2006)
Research grant “Sexual and Reproductive Practices”, Ford Foundation, directod
(2005 – 2007)
Research grant “Combining Efforts to Provide Occupation Safety of Sex-workers.
(The case of Saint Petersburg)”, the International Harm Reduction Development -IHRD
program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), New York, consultant (2005- 2006)
Individual research grant MacArthur Foundation “Gender and National State
Building” (2003 – 2005)
“The Development of Gender Research”. MacArthur Grant (1998-2000)
Grant of OSI - RCC at the European Program, pilot project (1999)
“The Development of Women's Movement and Women's Participation”. MacArthur
Grant (1995-1996)
“The Motivation of Women's Participation”, Grant of "Cultural Initiative" (1994).
“Modem Social Movements: Emergence, Development and Influence on Social
Relations and Social Institutional Changes”. Grant of the Academy of Sciences (1994)
“The Information and Research Group of the Labor Movement Studies”. Grant of
Soros Foundation.(1993)
FELLOWSHIP
2011. Visiting research fellowship “Health and Professions”, Oxford Center for
parenting and Childhood, UK
2010. Visiting research fellowship “Reproduction and Fertility”, Population Institute,
Helsinki (Finland)
2010. Visiting research fellowship ‘Sociology of reproductive health’, FAFO, Institute
for Labor and Social Research (Norway)
2008. CRC Visiting research fellowship Budapest CEU
2008. Fellowship NIKK, Oslo Gender center,
2006. CRC Gender session Budapest CEU
2004. Research Fellowship, Helsinki Collegiums for Advanced Studies,
2002. Research Fellowship, Finish Academy
2001, 2002. Tempus grant professional mobility: curricula development, Science Po,
Paris
1995-1996. Two-year PhD fellowship. Finland, University of Helsinki
1992-1993. Seven-month research scholarship IREX: "The Labor Movement as a
Social Movement in Transition." New York, USA Columbia University,
1991. One-month research scholarship in the field of the Theory of Social
Movements, UK, Oxford University
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
1997 - present. Co-directior Gender Studies Programm, EUSPb
2007 - present. EUSPb Endowment foundation board member
2006 - present. Scientific council EUSPb, member
2007 - present. Member of advisory board a book series "Intersectional Gender
Studies: European and Transnational Feminist Perspectives", the Centre of Excellence in
Gender Studies at the Universities of Linköping and Örebro, Sweden, the Swedish Research
Council (2007-2011).
2007 – present. Advanced seminar series – Gender relation network (Orebro,
October) (Towards a European Center of Excellence in Transitional and Transnational
Studies of changing gender relations)
2003 – 2005. Dean, Department of Political Science and Sociology, EUSPb
1998 - present. Membership, Russian Sociological Association
1998 – present. “Gender and Culture”, Sage, membership, editorial board.
1999 - present. “Gender Studies”, Kharkhov, editorial board.
2009-2012. Editorial board Laboratorium Russian Review of Social Research;
2009-2012. Editorial board Gender Studies and Research, Scientific Journal
(Vilnius);
2010. Member of Organization Committee 4th Sociological Hearing “Sociology:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, St. Petersburg. Session “Gender Arrangement of
Everyday Life”;
2010. Member of Organization Committee of the international Conference “Youth
Solidarities 21 century: New styles. Spaces. Practices”. Ul’yanovsk (Russia).
2011. Member of Organization Committee conference “Gender order in Russia:
literature and mass culture” Department of Philosophy SPbGU, St. Petersburg
2011. Member of Organization Committee 5th Sociological Hearing “Sociology:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, St. Petersburg.
2011. Assessor of the regional project “Social research of health care provision:
Russia in Global context” (EUSPb)
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Research interests: research of the gender culture, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health
in post-Soviet societies.