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“laurie essig”

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  • Queer in Russia

    A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other

    by Laurie Essig ...
    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, as well as observing and analyzing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • American Plastic

    Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection

    by Laurie Essig ...
    The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the bodyPlastic surgery has become “the answer” for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Love, Inc.

    Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter

    by Laurie Essig ...
    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 romance on its head and see it for what it really is—an ideology that we desperately cling to as a way to cope with ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... Read more

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  • Trauma, Seventh Edition

    by Kenneth L. Mattox, Ernest E. Moore, David V. Feliciano ...
    The definitive guide to trauma surgery—now in full color!The seventh edition, Trauma reaffirms its status as the leading comprehensive textbook in the field. With a new full-color design and a rich atlas of anatomic drawings and surgical approaches, Trauma, 7e takes you through the full range of injuries the trauma surgeon is likely to encounter. The book also features timely coverage that ... Read more

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  • First Spring Grass Fire

    by Rae Spoon ...
    Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada.The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family ... Read more

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  • Breaking Out II: The Complete Guide to Building a Positive LGBTI Identity

    by Kevin Alderson ...
    Following on the heels of the first edition, Breaking Out II expands its coverage by including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals. While some societies have become more tolerant and accepting of sexual and gender diversity, LGBTI people continue to suffer psychological damage caused by growing up in largely heterosexist, homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "You Can Tell Just By Looking"

    And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

    by Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico ...
    Series Book 3 - Myths Made in America
    **2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT NonfictionBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives**In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck

    Edited by Parviz Janfaza M.D. ...
    Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck was hailed as indispensable when it was first published in 2001. This classic atlas—packed with over 700 exceptional drawings, 537 of them in full color—is now available again after years of being out of print. An invaluable reference for surgeons, residents, and medical students. ... Read more

    $330.79 USD

  • Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited

    AIDS and Its Aftermath

    by Andrew Holleran ...
    Andrew Holleran's Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as one of the best dispatches from the epidemic's height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized as a global health challenge, Holleran both reiterates and freshly illuminates the devastation wreaked by AIDS, ... Read more

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  • THE D.I.R.T. COMMITTEE

    Breast Implants, proprietary ingredients and other secrets

    by Gail Hamilton ...
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    THE D.I.R.T. COMMITTEEAt a time when people are fed up with big government and big corporations that drown out the voice of the everyday man and woman, THE D.I.R.T. COMMITTEE stands up and shouts on behalf of every woman who has suffered at the hands of Dow Corning or any other corporation that sells harmful products at the expense of women’s health and lives. In an Erin Brockovich sort of way, ... Read more

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  • New Queer Cinema

    The Director's Cut

    by B. Ruby Rich ...
    B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, ... Read more

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