Esther Rothblum
Biographic Data
| ID | 824244 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Rothblum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothblum |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHBLUM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | A professor of women's studies at San Diego State University and fellow of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association, including Division 2 (Teaching of Psychology) and Division 35 (Society of the Psychology of Women). |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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
The Fat Studies Reader
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the "obesity epidemic" stalking the nation are re…
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
Coming Out: The New Dynamicsby Nicholas Guittar
The process of coming out as gay or lesbian was first described by Australian psychologist Vivienne Cass in 1979 as consisting of a series of “stages” or steps such as first questioning one’s sexua
Gay and Lesbian Rights: A Reference Handbookby David E. Newton
It is challenging to capture a contemporary social movement in writing, especially the gay and lesbian rights movement in the 21st century. In the time it takes an author to finish writing, let alo
Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Lawby Elizabeth Brake
Introduction: Leading Lesbians Fight Disease and Disability
This thematic issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies focuses on the ways in which lesbian leaders have dealt with disease and disability. In the articles that follow, eight prominent lesbians describe what it means to cope with serious illness and medical treatment in the context of lesbian identity and community. This introduction provides an overview of some of the themes that arose in the various articles, focusing on lesbian support systems …
“I Have Never Slept with a Man, and There Is No Star Rising in the East”: Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Pregnancy Before Insemination
The National Lesbian Health Care Survey (NLHCS) was the first major survey of lesbian and bisexual women's health and mental health, and was conducted in 1984–1985 with 1,927 participants from all U.S. states and several territories. The NLHCS included an open-ended item, about what had prevented respondents from becoming pregnant, that was never transcribed or analyzed, yet that reflected historical trends of that time. The survey was conducted …
Feminism is queer: The intimate connection between queer and feminist theory , by Mimi Marinucci
Feminism is queer: the intimate connection between queer and feminist theory, by Mimi Marinucci, London, Zed Books, 2010, 140 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-84813-475-1The relationship between
Sex for life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives
And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers by Karen L. Graves
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…
Use of Online Surveys for Undergraduate Psychology of Women Courses
Commentary: The More Things Change
Swimming Against the Current
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…
Lesbians and Sexual Risk: An Oxymoron
Improving the accuracy of identifying lesbians for telephone surveys about health
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: Findings and Concerns
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…
Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom
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…
Becoming a Lesbian Psychologist
No abstract available for this article
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
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…
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…
Introduction: Leading Lesbians Fight Disease and Disability
This thematic issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies focuses on the ways in which lesbian leaders have dealt with disease and disability. In the articles that follow, eight prominent lesbians describe what it means to cope with serious illness and medical treatment in the context of lesbian identity and community. This introduction provides an overview of some of the themes that arose in the various articles, focusing on lesbian support systems …
Commentary: The More Things Change
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
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
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…
Becoming a Lesbian Psychologist
No abstract available for this article
Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health: Findings and Concerns
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…
Improving the accuracy of identifying lesbians for telephone surveys about health
Lesbians and Sexual Risk: An Oxymoron
Swimming Against the Current
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…
Commentary: The More Things Change
And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers by Karen L. Graves
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…
Use of Online Surveys for Undergraduate Psychology of Women Courses
“I Have Never Slept with a Man, and There Is No Star Rising in the East”: Lesbians, Bisexual Women, and Pregnancy Before Insemination
The National Lesbian Health Care Survey (NLHCS) was the first major survey of lesbian and bisexual women's health and mental health, and was conducted in 1984–1985 with 1,927 participants from all U.S. states and several territories. The NLHCS included an open-ended item, about what had prevented respondents from becoming pregnant, that was never transcribed or analyzed, yet that reflected historical trends of that time. The survey was conducted …
Feminism is queer: The intimate connection between queer and feminist theory , by Mimi Marinucci
Feminism is queer: the intimate connection between queer and feminist theory, by Mimi Marinucci, London, Zed Books, 2010, 140 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-84813-475-1The relationship between
Sex for life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives
Introduction: Leading Lesbians Fight Disease and Disability
This thematic issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies focuses on the ways in which lesbian leaders have dealt with disease and disability. In the articles that follow, eight prominent lesbians describe what it means to cope with serious illness and medical treatment in the context of lesbian identity and community. This introduction provides an overview of some of the themes that arose in the various articles, focusing on lesbian support systems …
Coming Out: The New Dynamicsby Nicholas Guittar
The process of coming out as gay or lesbian was first described by Australian psychologist Vivienne Cass in 1979 as consisting of a series of “stages” or steps such as first questioning one’s sexua
Gay and Lesbian Rights: A Reference Handbookby David E. Newton
It is challenging to capture a contemporary social movement in writing, especially the gay and lesbian rights movement in the 21st century. In the time it takes an author to finish writing, let alo
Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Lawby Elizabeth Brake
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 Fat Studies Reader
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology Winner of the 2010 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies from the Popular Culture Association We have all seen the segments on television news shows: A fat person walking on the sidewalk, her face out of frame so she can't be identified, as some disconcerting findings about the "obesity epidemic" stalking the nation are re…
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
Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (10 works) · Lesbian (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Homosexuality (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works)