Laura Gottesdiener's Books

A moving exploration of homeownership, freedom, and the American Dream in light of the ongoing financial crisis and mass foreclosure.

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

One of the leading causes of death is organ failure, and the supply of replacement parts is limited due to its dependence on donors. This volume examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding xenotransplantation and considers the implications for the future.

Using in-depth interviews with punk women growing old disgracefully, Way explores how women construct punk identities. Reflecting on punk ‘then’ and ‘now’, they reveal the constraints punk women experience on their identities growing older, the complex relationship between appearance and dress, and the impact of social expectations around aging.

Book's by Laura Gottesdiener

A Dream Foreclosed

A Dream Foreclosed

A Dream Foreclosed

A Dream Foreclosed

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics

Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation

Punk, Gender and Ageing

Punk, Gender and Ageing

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