Esther D Rothblum
Biographic Data
| ID | 142167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther D Rothblum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothblum |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHBLUM E D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0524-4955 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 110 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 661 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 109 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Psychological health among adult offspring of lesbian parents at a time of anti-LGBTQ+ oppression
This study investigates potential differences in psychological health (i.e. life satisfaction, anticipated future life satisfaction, distress), social well-being, and experiences of victimisation among adult offspring born to lesbian parents when compared with participants from a nationally representative sample surveyed in the same historical context of renewed anti-LGBTQ+ oppression. The research involved 75 adult offspring (M = 30.93, SD = 0.9…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Donor-Conceived Offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from Adolescence to Adulthood
Introduction Concerns about parents with minoritized sexual identities often focus on the belief that their children will be confused about their gender and report a non-heterosexual orientation compared to children reared by heterosexual parents. Yet, few longitudinal studies exist. Methods Gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexual experiences were examined in 75 U.S. donor-conceived offspring (39 assigned females at bir…
Mentoring Mid-Career Women Faculty: Expanding Roles and Changing Priorities
Long-Term Effects of Family Resilience on the Subjective Well-Being of Offspring in the National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study
The current study used a family resilience approach to investigate why some offspring of sexual minority parents thrive despite homophobic stigmatization while others do not. Specifically, the study explored the role of two specific family functioning mechanisms (i.e., during adolescence, disclosure of offspring's personal life to their parents, and family compatibility) in the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization at age 17 a…
Mentoring Women to Publish in Order to Thrive in the Academic Patriarchy
It is vital for women to publish their writing for tenure and promotion so that they are no longer underrepresented as senior scholars in academia. Furthermore, it is important that their radical and important ideas are published and not lost to history. For the 2022 Carolyn Wood Sherif Award talk, I focused on five topics: (1) publishing is vital for women in academia; (2) women may not feel entitled to write and publish; (3) women need to learn…
Mental Health of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Other-Identified Parents and Non-Parents from a Population-Based Study
Studies have compared sexual minority mothers (mostly lesbian) to heterosexual mothers on mental health, but little research has compared sexual minority women with and without children. This was the first study to compare sexual minority women who did or did not have children, using a population-based sample with three age cohorts. Unlike prior convenience studies, this study finds parents more likely to be bisexual, in a relationship with a man…
Foreword to volume 10 of the fat studies journal
When I was first invited by Taylor & Francis Publishers to found a journal about fat studies, I was worried about finding enough scholarship for even one issue a year. We soon moved from two to thr
Long-Term Effects of Homophobic Stigmatization During Adolescence on Problem Behavior in Emerging Adult Offspring of Lesbian Parents
Parental Responses to Coming out by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Pansexual, or Two‐Spirited People across Three Age Cohorts
It is too early to state that coming out to parents has become easier. Harmony in the parent-child relationship after coming out and open communication about sexual identities is regarded as desirable and yet it remains elusive for many LGBQ+ people
The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health
The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health provides an overview of the current research on the mental health of sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations. It is aimed at researchers conducting studies on the mental health of SGM populations, clinicians and researchers interested in psychiatric disorders that affect SGM populations, clinicians using evidence-based practice in the treatment of SGM patients/clients, students …
Studying the longest ‘legal’ U.S. same-sex couples: A case of lessons learned
We review methodological opportunities and lessons learned in conducting a longitudinal, prospective study of same-sex couples with civil unions, recruited from a population-based sample, who were compared with same-sex couples in their friendship circle who did not have civil unions, and heterosexual married siblings and their spouse. At Time 1 (2002), Vermont was the only U.S. state to provide legal recognition similar to marriage to same-sex c…
Different childhoods: Non/normative development and transgressive trajectories Lindsay O’Dell, Charlotte Brownlow and Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist (Eds.)
Heading home: Motherhood, work, and the failed promise of equality Shani Orgad
Gay fathers by surrogacy: Prejudice, parenting, and well-being of female and male children
Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities
Although queer identity has been used among sexual minorities for decades, little is known about the population of queer-identified people in the U.S. We compared people who identify as queer (unweighted n = 88; weighted % = 5.8%) with those who identify as lesbian/gay (n = 833; 46.9%), bisexual (n = 493; 40.6%) or other sexual minority identities (n = 93; 6.7%), in order to describe queer-identified people as a distinct sexual minority group. Th…
Meaning in Life as a Moderator between Homophobic Stigmatization and Coping Styles in Adult Offspring from Planned Lesbian-Parent Families
Introduction The current study examined whether achieving a sense of meaning in life moderated the association between experienced homophobic stigmatization and coping styles in emerging adult offspring of lesbian mothers. In the sixth wave of the U S National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study, completed in 2017, the 76 participating offspring were 25 years old. Methods The offspring completed an online survey containing questions about homophobi…
Sizeism in Mental Health Training and Supervision
Graduate programs in the mental health professions provide training in multicultural issues, but sizeism is rarely included in this training. Here we provide suggestions for fat-affirmative graduate training, including the Health at Every Size Movement, terminology about weight, women’s appearance in a cultural context, and the long-term failures of most diets. We also provide recommendations for fat-affirmative clinical supervision, so that trai…
Two Editors Reflect on Women and Therapy in the 1980s and 1990s
Esther Rothblum and Ellen Cole were coeditors of Women & Therapy from 1984-1995. In this article we describe the process of editing a feminist journal in the 1980s and 1990s, including how each of us came to be an editor. We discuss the challenges and opportunities in editing the journal in the early years of the feminist movement and before the Internet
Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity? A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals: By CJ Atkinson, illustrated by Olly Pike (2017). Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 64 pages (paperbac…
"Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity? A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals, ." Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 14(3), pp. 260–261
The lives of asexual individuals outside of sexual and romantic relationships: Education, occupation, religion and community
Twenty-seven U.S. and Canadian participants who answered a call for interviews about asexual identity were asked about non-sexual aspects of their lives, including education, occupation, community and religion. Many participants indicated that being asexual was not a factor in school or college. Others mentioned advantages such as having more time for studies and fewer distractions, and disadvantages such as feeling lonely, left out or anxious. F…
Adult Children of Same-Sex and Heterosexual Couples: Demographic “Thriving”
Prior research comparing children of same-sex and heterosexual couples is limited by methodological issues such as not including male same-sex couples and not using appropriate comparison groups of heterosexual parents. The current study addresses these limitations by examining differences in demographic characteristics between adult children of female same-sex couples, male same-sex couples, and heterosexual couples (recruited from siblings), us…
Butch, femme, and androgynous gender identities within female same-sex couples: An actor-partner analysis
Mark Tedeschi, Eugenia: A true story of adversity, tragedy, crime and courage
In Eugenia, Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, a prominent Australian barrister, explores the events surrounding the arrest and incarceration of Harry Crawford in July 1920, a man charged with the mur
Just friends: The role of friendship in lesbians' lives
When we co-edited the book Lesbian Friendships in 1996, we wanted to focus more attention on the functions and meanings of friendships among lesbians. We asked lesbians to write about the ways in w
A Comparison of Trans Women, Trans Men, Genderqueer Individuals, and Cisgender Brothers and Sisters on the Bem Sex-Role Inventory: Ratings by Self and Siblings
A U.S. national sample of 295 transgender adults (trans women, trans men, and genderqueer individuals) and their cisgender siblings completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory about their siblings as well as themselves, which enabled a comparison between self-perceptions and sibling's perceptions of personality characteristics. Self-reported personality characteristics scored as feminine of trans women were not statistically different from those of thei…
Is Fat a Feminist Issue? Exploring the Gendered Nature of Weight Bias
Three-year follow-up of same-sex couples who had civil unions in Vermont, same-sex couples not in civil unions, and heterosexual married couples
This study was a 3-year follow-up of 65 male and 138 female same-sex couples who had civil unions in Vermont during the 1st year of that legislation. These couples were compared with 23 male and 61 female same-sex couples in their friendship circles who did not have civil unions and with 55 heterosexual married couples (1 member of each was a sibling to a member of a civil union couple). Despite the legalized nature of their relationships, civil …
Money, Housework, Sex, and Conflict: Same-Sex Couples in Civil Unions, Those Not in Civil Unions, and Heterosexual Married Siblings
When Lesbians Aren't Gay: Factors Affecting Depression Among Lesbians
Research on women and depression has neglected to explore how the factors that put women at risk for depression apply to lesbians. The present study examined four of the risk factors consistently cited in the women and depression literature (relationship status, relationship satisfaction, social support from friends, and social support from family), and two unique factors (outness and relationship status satisfaction), to determine their ability …
Relationship Satisfaction, Affectivity, and Gay-Specific Stressors in Same-Sex Couples Joined in Civil Unions
Relationship satisfaction, affect, and stress were examined in 313 same-sex couples who had had civil unions in Vermont during the first year of this legislation. Similarity between partners on age and on positive/negative affectivity was related to relationship satisfaction whereas there was no association with similarity in income, education, and outness. Lesbian couples ( n = 199), compared to gay male couples, reported experiencing more stres…
Exploring the Q in LGBTQ: Demographic characteristic and sexuality of queer people in a U.S. representative sample of sexual minorities
Although queer identity has been used among sexual minorities for decades, little is known about the population of queer-identified people in the U.S. We compared people who identify as queer (unweighted n = 88; weighted % = 5.8%) with those who identify as lesbian/gay (n = 833; 46.9%), bisexual (n = 493; 40.6%) or other sexual minority identities (n = 93; 6.7%), in order to describe queer-identified people as a distinct sexual minority group. Th…
Gender differences in social consequences of perceived overweight in the United States and Australia
Who Fills out A “Lesbian” Questionnaire: The Interrelationship of Sexual Orientation, Years “Out,” Disclosure of Sexual Orientation, Sexual Experience with Women, and Participation in the Lesbian Comm…
Most research on lesbians has used self-report questionnaires, and assumed that respondents who complete a “lesbian” questionnaire self-identify as lesbians and engage in sexual relationships with women. The present study examined the degree to which 2,393 women who answered a “Lesbian Wellness Survey” are distributed on five aspects of lesbian sexuality and the coming-out process. The five aspects were: (a) Sexual Orientation (numerical rating o…
The Stigma of Women's Weight: Social and Economic Realities
This article reviews the literature on weight and social stigma. It argues that obese women are both held accountable for their weight and rejected on account of their weight. Secondly, it presents evidence that obese women become downwardly socially mobile because of their weight. Finally, it points to some directions that are necessary for western society to cease its obsession with body weight and consequently improve the life satisfaction and…
Exploring gender identity and community among three groups of transgender individuals in the United States: MTFs, FTMs, and genderqueers
A United States sample of 166 transgender adults including 50 male-to-females (MTFs), 52 female-to-males (FTMs), and 64 genderqueers (neither completely female nor completely male), were surveyed about identity development, levels of disclosure of transgender status, and relationship to community. There was no difference among transgender groups in age of first experiencing oneself differently from assigned birth sex. MTFs first identified as oth…
Mental Health Impact of Child Sexual Abuse, Rape, Intimate Partner Violence, and Hate Crimes in the National Lesbian Health Care Survey
The prevalence and mental health sequelae of child sexual abuse, rape, intimate partner violence and hate crimes are examined in a national sample of 1925 lesbians who participated as respondents in the National Lesbian Health Care Survey (1984-1985), the most comprehensive study on U.S. lesbians to date. Multivariate analyses of covariance indicated that, relative to a comparison group, lesbians who had experienced child sexual abuse and intimat…
Impact of Civil Marriage Recognition for Long-Term Same-Sex Couples
Sexual Orientation and Sex in Women's Lives: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Use of such categorical terms as heterosexual, bisexual, and lesbian is widespread, yet research indicates that sexuality is a multidimensional phenomenon. Sexual behavior, identity, and desire are not highly intercorrelated for women, and this has implications for new ways of conceptualizing sexual orientation. Furthermore, the multifaceted nature of sexual orientation has implications for conceptualizing sexual activity and sexual desire for wo…
Parental Responses to Coming out by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Pansexual, or Two‐Spirited People across Three Age Cohorts
It is too early to state that coming out to parents has become easier. Harmony in the parent-child relationship after coming out and open communication about sexual identities is regarded as desirable and yet it remains elusive for many LGBQ+ people
Same-Sex Couples' Decisions and Experiences of Marriage in the Context of Minority Stress: Interviews From a Population-Based Longitudinal Study
In the emerging context of marriage equality, it is important to explore the reasons for and experience of marriage for long-term same-sex couples, including the role of minority stress. In Wave 3 of the population-based, longitudinal CUPPLES Study we interviewed 21 long-term same-sex couples (14 female, 7 male) who resided in 12 different states and who were legally married. Couple members ranged in age from 37 to 84 and reported being together …
Psychological antecedents of student procrastination
The study examined three psychological explanations for procrastination: indecision (Janis & Mann, 1977); irrational beliefs about self-worth (Ellis & Knaus, 1977); and low self-esteem (Burka & Yuen, 1983). Times taken by 245 students in a first-year Psychology course to submit three separate assignments (a term-paper outline, a term paper, and a research questionnaire) were recorded and correlated with measures of indecision, irrational beliefs,…
Transforming Lesbian Sexuality
Women are objectified and sexualized by the media and the economy, so that they live in a culture of sex. Lesbians are excluded from the mainstream sexual and appearance norms for women, yet are affected by these norms, including the association of sex and violence against women. The word sexuality has been used to connote both sexual orientation and sexual activity, and it is argued that this dual meaning illustrates the dominance of patriarchal…
Where is the ‘Women’s Community?’ Voices of Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women and Heterosexual Sisters
Sixty women (28 lesbian, 19 bisexual, three queer, and 10 heterosexual) were interviewed about their definition of and connection to ‘community’. Women across sexual identities defined community according to support, similarity to others, physical proximity, and interlocking circles of closeness from family, friends, and lovers outwards to acquaintances and organizations. Regarding women’s connection to community, founders started their own group…
Comparison of Same-Sex Couples Who Were Married in Massachusetts, Had Domestic Partnerships in California, or Had Civil Unions in Vermont
This study compared 55 men and 78 women who had same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, 101 men and 120 women who had domestic partnerships in California, and 35 men and 86 women who had civil unions in Vermont, all in 2004. Couples were surveyed on demographic and relationship information, conflict, contact with family of origin, social support, politics, and leisure activities. There were few interstate differences, although couples in Massachuset…
Narratives of Same-Sex Couples Who Had Civil Unions in Vermont: The Impact of Legalizing Relationships on Couples and on Social Policy
The Relationships of Body Image, Feminism and Sexual Orientation in College Women
In this study, 409 undergraduate women completed surveys about their own body image, feminism and sexual orientation as well as their attitudes about others, that is, attitudes about weight in others, attitudes about feminism and attitudes about lesbians and gay men. There was a significant relationship between the three external measures of fat attitudes, attitudes towards feminism and attitudes towards lesbians and gay men, and it is argued tha…
Gender Differences in Internal Beliefs About Weight and Negative Attitudes Towards Self and Others
Previous research has found that people with an internal weight locus of control (beliefs in self-control over weight) are more likely to join and stay in weight-loss programs and have higher self-esteem than those who have an external locus of control (e.g., belief that weight is due to luck, genes). There has been no research on how weight locus of control affects the self-esteem of people who are not average weight or not satisfied with their …
WindsorandPerry: Reactions of Siblings in Same-Sex and Heterosexual Couples
The U.S. Supreme Court decisions in U.S. v. Windsor (570 U.S. 307) and Hollingsworth v. Perry (570 U.S. 399) created a focal point for public discussion of marriage equality for same-sex couples. This article reports the results of an exploratory study of the reactions of individuals currently or previously in same-sex couple relationships and a heterosexual sibling who is currently or previously married (N = 371) to the Supreme Court decisions. …
Beauty Mandates and the Appearance Obsession: Are Lesbian and Bisexual Women Better Off
This article examines the effects of appearance norms within lesbian communities, drawing both on the research literature and on direct interviews with lesbian and bisexual women. In particular, the authors assess the impact of heterosexual beauty mandates on women's communities and ask whether lesbian and bisexual women are affected by the dominant culture's beauty mandates to a similar or lesser degree than heterosexual women. In addition, the …
The Longest “Legal” U.S. Same‐Sex Couples Reflect on Their Relationships
Vermont was the first U.S. state to create a legal status for same‐sex couples (civil unions). Same‐sex couples who entered into civil unions during the first year of availability were asked to reflect on their relationship 3 years later. Written essays from 452 members of civil union couples were analyzed via thematic analysis. Most couple members considered the civil union to be highly significant, providing increased benefits and legitimacy. S…
Women's Socialization and the Prevalence of Depression: The Feminine Mistake
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Academic procrastination: Frequency and cognitive-behavioral correlates.
Analyse factorielle des raisons invoquees par 342 etudiants pour rendre compte de leur temporisation dans certaines tâches universitaires, apres un examen de la frequence d'un tel comportement
More on reporting sex differences
More on reporting sex differences
Gender differences in social consequences of perceived overweight in the United States and Australia
Psychological antecedents of student procrastination
The study examined three psychological explanations for procrastination: indecision (Janis & Mann, 1977); irrational beliefs about self-worth (Ellis & Knaus, 1977); and low self-esteem (Burka & Yuen, 1983). Times taken by 245 students in a first-year Psychology course to submit three separate assignments (a term-paper outline, a term paper, and a research questionnaire) were recorded and correlated with measures of indecision, irrational beliefs,…
Leaving the Ivory Tower: Factors Contributing to Women's Voluntary Resignation from Academia
Over the past decades, women have entered nontraditional fields, have received advanced degrees in ever increasing numbers, and have been appointed to university positions, despite the biases in the hiring, tenure, and promotion of female faculty on which the feminist literature has focused.1 Yet significant proportions of women are choosing to leave academic positions before reappointment and tenure decisions. I would like to explore the reasons…
Social Interactions of Obese and Nonobese Women
The stigma associated with obesity is likely to limit the opportunities obese women have to develop social skills This hypothesis was tested by having obese ( n = 15) and nonobese ( n = 22) women converse on the telephone with college students who were unaware of the women's weights Ratings made by judges who listened to the women's contributions to the conversations but who were unaware of their weights showed that obesity was negatively related…
Depression among lesbians: An invisible and unresearched phenomenon
Commentary on “Sexuality and the Midlife Woman”
In responding to Sandra Leiblum's clearly written, well-researched, and very well-balanced article, we would like to make three points about (a) the nature of language in menopause research and discussion; (b) the pathological and heterosexist bias in the scientific literature on menopause; and (c) our own research of menopausal lesbians
Removing the stigma: Fifteen years of progress
Removing the stigma: Fifteen years of progress
The Stigma of Women's Weight: Social and Economic Realities
This article reviews the literature on weight and social stigma. It argues that obese women are both held accountable for their weight and rejected on account of their weight. Secondly, it presents evidence that obese women become downwardly socially mobile because of their weight. Finally, it points to some directions that are necessary for western society to cease its obsession with body weight and consequently improve the life satisfaction and…
VI We May Be Your Worst Nightmare, but We Are also Your Future: The Role of a Psychology of Lesbianism Section in the British Psychological Society
A Personal Introduction
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National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for mental health care.
Transforming Lesbian Sexuality
Women are objectified and sexualized by the media and the economy, so that they live in a culture of sex. Lesbians are excluded from the mainstream sexual and appearance norms for women, yet are affected by these norms, including the association of sex and violence against women. The word sexuality has been used to connote both sexual orientation and sexual activity, and it is argued that this dual meaning illustrates the dominance of patriarchal…
Foreward
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Do Obese Women Have Poorer Social Relationships Than Nonobese Women? Reports by Self, Friends, and Coworkers
Both theory and research suggest that obese women may have relatively poor social relationships even if their self‐reports about their relationships do not differ from the reports of nonobese women. Seventy‐seven obese and 78 nonobese women completed self‐report measures of social anxiety, social self‐esteem, social competence, social network size, and perceived social support from friends and family. Friends and coworkers also rated these women …
Foreward
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Preventing Heterosexism and Homophobia
Introduction - Esther D Rothblum and Lynne A Bond PART ONE: INSTITUTIONS AND SYSTEMS Speaking of Oppression - Celia Kitzinger Psychology, Politics and the Language of Power Combating Heterosexism in Educational Institutions - Connie S Chan Structural Changes and Strategies Preventing Heterosexism and Bias in Psychotherapy and Counseling - Laura S Brown Lesbians and Gay Men of Color - Beverly Greene The Legacy of Ethnosexual Mythologies in Heteros…
The Rich Get Social Services and the Poor Get Capitalism
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Becoming a Lesbian Psychologist
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A Comparison Study of United States and African Students on Perceptions of Obesity and Thinness
There is a negative correlation between body weight and income in the United States, and epidemic numbers of people diet to become thin. In developing nations, on the other hand, there is a positive correlation between weight and income, and fatness is associated with wealth and abundance. Although these differing cross-cultural trends have been documented by anthropologists, there has been minimal cross-cultural research on attitudes toward obes…
National Lesbian Health Care Survey: Implications for Mental Health Care
This article presents demographic, lifestyle, and mental health information about 1,925 lesbians from all 50 states who participated as respondents in the National Lesbian Health Care Survey (1984-1985), the most comprehensive study on U.S. lesbians to date. Over half the sample had had thoughts about suicide at some time, and 18% had attempted suicide. Thirty-seven percent had been physically abused as a child or adult, 32% had been raped or sex…
Psychology (94 works) · Sociology (61 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (54 works) · Social Psychology (51 works) · Gender Studies (47 works) · Developmental psychology (40 works) · Lesbian (38 works) · Social Psychology (37 works) · Gender Studies (34 works) · Political science (29 works)