Kristin G Esterberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 76068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin G Esterberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin G |
| FAMILY NAME | Esterberg |
| SIGNATURE | ESTERBERG K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-5558-4608 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Lavender Menace to Queer Nation: The transformation of lesbian identity in the baby boom era
Women of the early baby boom years in the U.S. came out into an environment in which same-sex desire was stigmatized and criminalized. For working-class lesbians, the bar scene provided an environment in which women could find companionship and a way to live a life decoupled from traditional heterosexual roles. For middle class women, bar life was fraught with legal and social risk, and some-mostly white-women worked to establish a more "socially…
From This Day Forward: Commitment, Marriage, and Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships
Our Love is Here To Stay': Lesbian and Gay Relationships in the 1990s - 'As Long as I Have a Heart': A History of Same Sex Ceremonies in the United States Since the 1960s - 'What is this Thing Called Love?': On the Meaning of Love - 'Power of Two': On the Meaning of Commitment and Marriage - 'We are Family!': The Creation of Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships 'Love and Marriage Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage?': Same Sex Ceremonies as …
Being a Lesbian and Being in Love: Constructing Identity Through Relationships
Clinicians and laypeople alike have assumed that lesbian identity is a unitary phenomenon, a central component of which included involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with another women. This paper is an empirical examination of the ways in which lesbian women construct their identities and the role of relationships in lesbian identity construction. Based on a sample of 94 lesbian and bisexual women, three identity accounts, or the meanin…
Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World
Individuals in modern societies move among a variety of social encounters each day. Often contradictory behaviors are required to carry out these interactions. If behaviors and values are inconsistent from one setting to another, a single self capable of adjusting adequately to such inconsistencies? Or the total self made up of several selves, capable of effective performance in a complex and contradictory society? This volume addresses these fun…
From Accommodation to Liberation: A Social Movement Analysis of Lesbians in the Homophile Movement
The gay and lesbian liberation movement and its predecessor, the homophile movement that originated in the 1950s, have been relatively little studied by sociologists; yet theories of ethnic mobilization, especially competition theory, help us to understand the mobilization of lesbians and gay men. At the same time, lesbian/gay social movement activity provides an important critique of social movement theories. This article focuses on the Daughter…
Transition to Divorce: A Life-Course Approach to Women's Marital Duration and Dissolution
This study integrates social exchange theory and the literature on stressful life events into a life-course approach to women's marital duration. We hypothesize that circumstances facilitating a successful transition into marriage have a cumulative effect, enhancing the likelihood of increased marital duration. By contrast, factors easing the transition to divorce have a negative impact on marital duration. We draw on a sample of 313 wives and mo…
Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies
From illness to action: Conceptions of homosexuality in the ladder, 1956–1965
The views of medical and psychiatric professionals had an important effect on lesbians' conceptions of themselves and their sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. This article traces the depiction of professional discourse on homosexuality in The Ladder, the first widely circulated lesbian publication in the United States. Published by the Daughters of Bilitis, a group of largely white, middle‐class lesbians, The Ladder shows evidence of changes in le…
Transition to Divorce: A Life-Course Approach to Women's Marital Duration and Dissolution
This study integrates social exchange theory and the literature on stressful life events into a life-course approach to women's marital duration. We hypothesize that circumstances facilitating a successful transition into marriage have a cumulative effect, enhancing the likelihood of increased marital duration. By contrast, factors easing the transition to divorce have a negative impact on marital duration. We draw on a sample of 313 wives and mo…
From Accommodation to Liberation: A Social Movement Analysis of Lesbians in the Homophile Movement
The gay and lesbian liberation movement and its predecessor, the homophile movement that originated in the 1950s, have been relatively little studied by sociologists; yet theories of ethnic mobilization, especially competition theory, help us to understand the mobilization of lesbians and gay men. At the same time, lesbian/gay social movement activity provides an important critique of social movement theories. This article focuses on the Daughter…
From illness to action: Conceptions of homosexuality in the ladder, 1956–1965
The views of medical and psychiatric professionals had an important effect on lesbians' conceptions of themselves and their sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. This article traces the depiction of professional discourse on homosexuality in The Ladder, the first widely circulated lesbian publication in the United States. Published by the Daughters of Bilitis, a group of largely white, middle‐class lesbians, The Ladder shows evidence of changes in le…
Being a Lesbian and Being in Love: Constructing Identity Through Relationships
Clinicians and laypeople alike have assumed that lesbian identity is a unitary phenomenon, a central component of which included involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with another women. This paper is an empirical examination of the ways in which lesbian women construct their identities and the role of relationships in lesbian identity construction. Based on a sample of 94 lesbian and bisexual women, three identity accounts, or the meanin…
From Lavender Menace to Queer Nation: The transformation of lesbian identity in the baby boom era
Women of the early baby boom years in the U.S. came out into an environment in which same-sex desire was stigmatized and criminalized. For working-class lesbians, the bar scene provided an environment in which women could find companionship and a way to live a life decoupled from traditional heterosexual roles. For middle class women, bar life was fraught with legal and social risk, and some-mostly white-women worked to establish a more "socially…
From illness to action: Conceptions of homosexuality in the ladder, 1956–1965
The views of medical and psychiatric professionals had an important effect on lesbians' conceptions of themselves and their sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. This article traces the depiction of professional discourse on homosexuality in The Ladder, the first widely circulated lesbian publication in the United States. Published by the Daughters of Bilitis, a group of largely white, middle‐class lesbians, The Ladder shows evidence of changes in le…
Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies
Being a Lesbian and Being in Love: Constructing Identity Through Relationships
Clinicians and laypeople alike have assumed that lesbian identity is a unitary phenomenon, a central component of which included involved in a romantic or sexual relationship with another women. This paper is an empirical examination of the ways in which lesbian women construct their identities and the role of relationships in lesbian identity construction. Based on a sample of 94 lesbian and bisexual women, three identity accounts, or the meanin…
Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World
Individuals in modern societies move among a variety of social encounters each day. Often contradictory behaviors are required to carry out these interactions. If behaviors and values are inconsistent from one setting to another, a single self capable of adjusting adequately to such inconsistencies? Or the total self made up of several selves, capable of effective performance in a complex and contradictory society? This volume addresses these fun…
From Accommodation to Liberation: A Social Movement Analysis of Lesbians in the Homophile Movement
The gay and lesbian liberation movement and its predecessor, the homophile movement that originated in the 1950s, have been relatively little studied by sociologists; yet theories of ethnic mobilization, especially competition theory, help us to understand the mobilization of lesbians and gay men. At the same time, lesbian/gay social movement activity provides an important critique of social movement theories. This article focuses on the Daughter…
Transition to Divorce: A Life-Course Approach to Women's Marital Duration and Dissolution
This study integrates social exchange theory and the literature on stressful life events into a life-course approach to women's marital duration. We hypothesize that circumstances facilitating a successful transition into marriage have a cumulative effect, enhancing the likelihood of increased marital duration. By contrast, factors easing the transition to divorce have a negative impact on marital duration. We draw on a sample of 313 wives and mo…
From This Day Forward: Commitment, Marriage, and Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships
Our Love is Here To Stay': Lesbian and Gay Relationships in the 1990s - 'As Long as I Have a Heart': A History of Same Sex Ceremonies in the United States Since the 1960s - 'What is this Thing Called Love?': On the Meaning of Love - 'Power of Two': On the Meaning of Commitment and Marriage - 'We are Family!': The Creation of Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships 'Love and Marriage Go Together Like a Horse and Carriage?': Same Sex Ceremonies as …
From Lavender Menace to Queer Nation: The transformation of lesbian identity in the baby boom era
Women of the early baby boom years in the U.S. came out into an environment in which same-sex desire was stigmatized and criminalized. For working-class lesbians, the bar scene provided an environment in which women could find companionship and a way to live a life decoupled from traditional heterosexual roles. For middle class women, bar life was fraught with legal and social risk, and some-mostly white-women worked to establish a more "socially…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Lesbian (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works)