Laurie Essig
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie Essig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie |
| FAMILY NAME | Essig |
| SIGNATURE | ESSIG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism, written by Julie A. Cassiday
What Do We Learn About Fascism If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist
Ask a lesbian feminist who has been paying attention to global fascism about Donald Trump’s election, and she will tell you there’s nothing unusual about what’s happening in the United States. There are similar movements around the world. Trump and his allies successfully mobilized “gender” as an internal enemy to shore up his base of supporters. Like Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orbán or Ron DeSantis, Trump was able to convince voters that “gender i…
Forward: “Feminist and Queer resistance to Neo-Fascism’s anti-‘Gender Ideology’ movements”
Belief in Hopeless Times: The Once and Future Lesbian in Putin's Russia and Beyond
In this article, written 2 1/2 years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I consider how lesbians and other queer women created lives in what was an increasingly totalitarian regime. Borrowing from Black queer feminist Afro-futurism, I try to open up space for survival in un-survivable conditions without in anyway suggesting that anti-Blackness and the anti-queer regime of Vladimir Putin are the same. In order to figure out how the tools of Afro-…
Judith Lorber, The New Gender Paradox
What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects
By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We …
Lesbian, feminist, Terf: A queer attack on feminist studies
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not beca…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction| June 01 2016 Introduction to the Special Issue Laurie Essig; Laurie Essig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sujata Moorti Sujata Moorti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2016) 3 (2): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laurie Essig, Sujata Moor…
All the World Was There” and Other White Lies about the Royal Wedding
Research Article| June 01 2016 “All the World Was There” and Other White Lies about the Royal Wedding Laurie Essig Laurie Essig Laurie Essig is associate professor at Middlebury College, where she is the director of the program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Her most recent book was American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards and Our Quest for Perfection (Beacon, 2010). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A J…
Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia
Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
Liberty Walther Barnes. Published by Temple University Press, 2014. Paperback, 228 pages. ISBN 978-1439910429, $29.95. In Conceiving Masculinity , Liberty Walther Barnes gives us an illustrative example of how bodies, technologies and gender get entangled in ways that make it difficult to figure out where one ends and the other begins. Take the ‘problem’ of infertility. It turns out that a certain segment of the American public not only believes …
Bury Their Hearts”: Some Thoughts on the Specter of Homosexuality Haunting Russia
Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws and anti-gay sentiment have shocked many in the West. They shouldn’t have. In Soviet Russia, the homosexual was seen as a sign of foreign pollution, a temporary aberration—like a criminal or a disease—that will disappear in a more socialist future. As a result, queer Russians were not so much the stable homosexual species that they have been in the past 150 years in the West as much as momentary communities of de…
Phallus Envy
To be a lesbian in academe is to occupy the ghostly world of the Abject. We cannot be and therefore we can only manifest in easily recognized forms: androgyne, mannish lesbian, nice gay girl, ball-busting bitches, and asexual whatisits. Our only hope is to obtain the ever-enviable Phallus, but even this strategy is limited by the Phallus's tendency to detach as the slightest sign of femaleness
Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Lesbian, feminist, Terf: A queer attack on feminist studies
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not beca…
Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
Liberty Walther Barnes. Published by Temple University Press, 2014. Paperback, 228 pages. ISBN 978-1439910429, $29.95. In Conceiving Masculinity , Liberty Walther Barnes gives us an illustrative example of how bodies, technologies and gender get entangled in ways that make it difficult to figure out where one ends and the other begins. Take the ‘problem’ of infertility. It turns out that a certain segment of the American public not only believes …
Bury Their Hearts”: Some Thoughts on the Specter of Homosexuality Haunting Russia
Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws and anti-gay sentiment have shocked many in the West. They shouldn’t have. In Soviet Russia, the homosexual was seen as a sign of foreign pollution, a temporary aberration—like a criminal or a disease—that will disappear in a more socialist future. As a result, queer Russians were not so much the stable homosexual species that they have been in the past 150 years in the West as much as momentary communities of de…
Phallus Envy
To be a lesbian in academe is to occupy the ghostly world of the Abject. We cannot be and therefore we can only manifest in easily recognized forms: androgyne, mannish lesbian, nice gay girl, ball-busting bitches, and asexual whatisits. Our only hope is to obtain the ever-enviable Phallus, but even this strategy is limited by the Phallus's tendency to detach as the slightest sign of femaleness
Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
Phallus Envy
To be a lesbian in academe is to occupy the ghostly world of the Abject. We cannot be and therefore we can only manifest in easily recognized forms: androgyne, mannish lesbian, nice gay girl, ball-busting bitches, and asexual whatisits. Our only hope is to obtain the ever-enviable Phallus, but even this strategy is limited by the Phallus's tendency to detach as the slightest sign of femaleness
Bury Their Hearts”: Some Thoughts on the Specter of Homosexuality Haunting Russia
Russia’s anti-gay propaganda laws and anti-gay sentiment have shocked many in the West. They shouldn’t have. In Soviet Russia, the homosexual was seen as a sign of foreign pollution, a temporary aberration—like a criminal or a disease—that will disappear in a more socialist future. As a result, queer Russians were not so much the stable homosexual species that they have been in the past 150 years in the West as much as momentary communities of de…
Conceiving Masculinity: Male Infertility, Medicine, and Identity
Liberty Walther Barnes. Published by Temple University Press, 2014. Paperback, 228 pages. ISBN 978-1439910429, $29.95. In Conceiving Masculinity , Liberty Walther Barnes gives us an illustrative example of how bodies, technologies and gender get entangled in ways that make it difficult to figure out where one ends and the other begins. Take the ‘problem’ of infertility. It turns out that a certain segment of the American public not only believes …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction| June 01 2016 Introduction to the Special Issue Laurie Essig; Laurie Essig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sujata Moorti Sujata Moorti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2016) 3 (2): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laurie Essig, Sujata Moor…
All the World Was There” and Other White Lies about the Royal Wedding
Research Article| June 01 2016 “All the World Was There” and Other White Lies about the Royal Wedding Laurie Essig Laurie Essig Laurie Essig is associate professor at Middlebury College, where she is the director of the program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Her most recent book was American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards and Our Quest for Perfection (Beacon, 2010). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A J…
Women without Men: Single Mothers and Family Change in the New Russia
Lesbian, feminist, Terf: A queer attack on feminist studies
While much has been said about the diversity industry and about transexclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), little has examined their relationship to one another or to academic feminist, queer, and trans studies. This article considers a "queer attack on feminist studies" at our small liberal arts college as a case study for thinking through these relations. A handful of students and diversity staff termed feminist studies faculty TERFs not beca…
Belief in Hopeless Times: The Once and Future Lesbian in Putin's Russia and Beyond
In this article, written 2 1/2 years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, I consider how lesbians and other queer women created lives in what was an increasingly totalitarian regime. Borrowing from Black queer feminist Afro-futurism, I try to open up space for survival in un-survivable conditions without in anyway suggesting that anti-Blackness and the anti-queer regime of Vladimir Putin are the same. In order to figure out how the tools of Afro-…
Judith Lorber, The New Gender Paradox
What's the Use of Feminist and Queer Theory: On Messy Methods, Archives, and Objects
By thinking with Feminist and Queer Studies, what new languages, objects of study, archives, and methods are enabled for those with other disciplinary trainings? This article uses as a case study a recent workshop that we—two Ph.D.s in Feminist Studies—convened for our colleagues who are affiliated with Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and had expressed their desire to be in conversation with current Feminist and Queer Studies debates. We …
Forward: “Feminist and Queer resistance to Neo-Fascism’s anti-‘Gender Ideology’ movements”
Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism, written by Julie A. Cassiday
What Do We Learn About Fascism If We Ask a Lesbian Feminist
Ask a lesbian feminist who has been paying attention to global fascism about Donald Trump’s election, and she will tell you there’s nothing unusual about what’s happening in the United States. There are similar movements around the world. Trump and his allies successfully mobilized “gender” as an internal enemy to shore up his base of supporters. Like Vladimir Putin or Viktor Orbán or Ron DeSantis, Trump was able to convince voters that “gender i…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · Lesbian (4 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · European history and politics (3 works)