Laurie Essig: 3 books
Queer in Russia
A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that country. After a decade of conducting interviews,...
American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
**The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body **
Plastic surgery has become “the answer” for many Americans, and in *American Plastic *sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular...
Love, Inc.
Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
The notion of “happily ever after” has been ingrained in many of us since childhood—meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need?
Author Laurie Essig invites us to flip this concept of...