Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., M.A.

Bowleg, L. (in press). Towards a critical health equity research stance: Why epistemology and methodology matter more than qualitative methods. Health Education and Behavior. doi:10.1177/1090198117728760

Bowleg, L. (2017). Intersectionality: An underutilized but essential theoretical framework for social psychology. In B. Gough (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (pp. 507-529). UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

             Bowleg, L., del Rio-Gonzalez, A. M., Holt, S., L., Pérez, C., Massie, J. S., Mandell, J. E., & Boone, C. (2017). Intersectional epistemologies of ignorance: How behavioral and social science research shapes what we know, think we know, and don’t know about U.S. Black men’s sexualities. Journal of Sex Research, 54, 577-603. doi:10.1080/00224499.2017.1295300

Bowleg, L. (2017). President Barack Obama: Black man extraordinary and ordinary. Invited op-ed.  American Journal of Public Health, 107. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303552.

2016

English, D., Bowleg, L., del Rio-Gonzalez, A. M., Tschann, J. M., Agans, R., & Malebranche, D. J. (2016). Measuring Black men's police-based discrimination experiences: Development and validation of the Police and Law Enforcement (PLE) Scale. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. doi:10.1037/cdp0000137

Mertens, D. M., Bazeley, P., Bowleg, L., Fielding, N., Maxwell, J., Molina-Azorin, J. F., & Niglas, K. (2016). Expanding thinking through a kaleidoscopic look into the future: Implications of the Mixed Methods International Research Association’s Task Force Report on the Future of Mixed Methods.  Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1-7. doi: 10.1177/1558689816649719.

Bowleg, L., & Bauer, G. R. (2016). Invited reflection: Quantifying intersectionality. Psychology of Women Quarterly. Retrieved from http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/06/29/0361684316654282 doi:10.1177/0361684316654282

Zea, M.C. & Bowleg, L. (2016). The final frontier — Transitions and sustainability: From mentored to independence.  AIDS & Behavior, 1-7. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1368-z

Bowleg, L., English, D., del Rio-Gonzalez, A.M., Burkholder, G.J., Teti, M. & Tschann, J.M.  (2016). Measuring the pros and cons of being a Black man: Development of the Black Men’s Experiences Scale (BMES).  Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 17, 177-188. doi: 10.1037/men000026.

2015

Bowleg, L., Heckert, A.L., Brown, T.L. & Massie, J.S.  (2015). Responsible men, blameworthy women: Black heterosexual men’s discursive constructions of safer sex and masculinity.  Health Psychology, 34(4), 314-327. doi: 10.1037/hea0000216.

Bowleg, L., Burkholder, G. J., Noar, S. M., Teti, M., Malebranche, D., & Tschann, J. M. (2015). Sexual scripts and HIV risk and behaviors among Black heterosexual men: Development of the Sexual Scripts Scale (SSS). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 639-654. doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0193-y

Nakhid, C., Majavu, A., Bowleg, L., Mooney, S., Ryan, I., Mayeda, D., . . . Halstead, D. (2015). "Intersectionality revisited: Moving beyond the contours of race, class, gender" – Notes on an intersectionality symposium. New Zealand Sociology, 30, 190-198.

Bowleg, L., Teti, M., Massie, J., Patel, A., J., M. D., & Tschann, J. M. (2015). “What does it take to be a man? What is a real man?”:  Ideologies of masculinity and HIV sexual risk among Black heterosexual men. In P. Aggleton, R. Parker & F. Thomas (Eds.), Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction (pp. 65-79). Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.

2014

Bowleg, L., Neilands, T., Tabb-Phillips, L., Burkholder, G. J., Teti, M., Malebranche, D. J., & Tschann, J. M. (2014). Neighborhood context and Black heterosexual men’s sexual HIV risk behaviors. AIDS and Behavior, 18, 2207-2218. doi: 10.1007/s10461-014-0803-2

Bowleg, L., Fitz, C.C., Burkholder, G.J., Massie, J.S., Wahome, R., Teti, M. Malebranche, D.J. & Tschann, J.M. (2014).  Racial discrimination and posttraumatic stress symptoms as pathways to sexual HIV risk among urban Black heterosexual men.  AIDS Care, 26(8),1050-1057. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2014.906548.

Baker, J.L., Rodgers, C.R., Davis, Z.M., Graceley, E. & Bowleg, L. (2014). Results from a secondary analysis regarding satisfaction with health care among African American women living with HIV/AIDS.   Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, 43(5), 664-676.  doi: 10.1111/1552-6909.12491

Bowleg, L., Mingho, M. & Massie, J.S.  (2014).  ““The skill is using your big head over your little head ”: What Black heterosexual men say they know, want, and need to prevent HIV. American Journal of Men’s Health, 7, 31S-42S. doi: 10.1177/1557988313483305

Bowleg, L. (2014).  When Black + Woman + Lesbian? ≠ Black Lesbian Woman.  In P. R. Grzanka (Ed).  Intersectionality: A foundation and frontiers reader (pp. 314-321). Boulder, CO: Westview.

2013

Doshi, R. K., Malebranche, D. J., Bowleg, L., & Sangaramoorthy, T. (2013). Health care and HIV testing experiences among Black men in the South: Implications for "Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain" HIV prevention strategies. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 27, 123-133. doi: 10.1089/apc.2012.0269.  PMID: 23268586

Bowleg, L., Burkholder, G.J., Massie, J.S., Wahome, R., Teti, M. Malebranche, D.J. & Tschann, J.M. (2013). Racial discrimination, social support, and sexual HIV risk among Black heterosexual men.  AIDS and Behavior, 17(1), 407-418.  doi: 10.1007/s10461-012-0179-0.  PMID: 22437347

Bowleg, L., Teti, M., Malebranche, D.J., & Tschann, J.M.   (2013). “It’s an uphill battle everyday": Intersectionality and the implications of social-structural factors for sexual HIV risk among Black heterosexual men.  Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 14(1), 25-34. doi: 10.1037/a0028392. PMCID: 3591486.

Bowleg, L. (2013). “Once you’ve blended the cake, you can’t take the parts back to the main ingredients”: Black gay and bisexual men’s descriptions and experiences of intersectionality. Sex Roles, 68, 754-767. doi: 10.1007/s11199-012-0152-4

Bowleg, L. (2013). Re-theorizing women’s health through the prism of intersectionality. In M. Spiers, P.A. Geller, & J. D. Kloss (Eds.). Women’s health psychology  (pp. 25-46). NY: John Wiley & Sons. 

Malebranche, D.M. & Bowleg, L. (2013).  Beyond gay, bisexual, or DL: Structural determinants of sexual HIV risk among Black men in the United States.  Social determinants of health among African American men.   In H.M. Treadwell, C. Xanthos, & K.B. Holden (Eds.) (pp. 161-182). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

2012

Bowleg, L. & Raj, A. (2012).  Shared communities, structural contexts, and HIV risk:  Prioritizing the HIV risk and prevention needs of Black heterosexual men.  American Journal of Public Health, 102(S2), S173-S177. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300342.  PMID: 22401513

Bowleg, L. (2012).  The problem with the phrase “women and minorities”:  Intersectionality, an important theoretical framework for public health. American Journal of Public Health, , 102(7), 1267-1273. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300750.  PMID: 22594719

Hussen, S., Bowleg, L., Sangaramoorthy, T., and Malebranche, D. (2012).  "Parents, peers and pornography: The influence of formative sexual scripts on adult HIV sexual risk behaviour among Black men. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 14(8), 863-877. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2012.703327.  PMID: 22823577

Reed, E., Santana, M. C., Bowleg, L., Welles, S. L., Horsburgh, C., & Raj, A. (2012). Experiences of racial discrimination and relation to sexual risk for HIV among a sample of urban African American men. Journal of Urban Health. doi: 10.1007/s11524-012-9690-x.  PMID: 22674464

Raj, A. & Bowleg, L. (2012).  Heterosexual risk for HIV among Black men in the United States: A call to action against a neglected crisis in Black communities.  American Journal of Men’s Health, 6(3), 178-181. doi: 10.1177/1557988311416496. PMID: 21831928

Teti, M., Martin, A.E., Randade, R., Massie, J., Malebranche, D.J.,  Tschann, J.M., & Bowleg, L.  (2012).  “I’m a keep rising. I’m a keep going forward, regardless ”: Exploring Black men’s resilient responses to socio-structural challenges and stressors.  Qualitative Health Research, 22(4), 524-533. doi: 10.1177/1049732311422051. PMID: 21911505

Caldwell, K. L. & Bowleg, L. (2012).  Enfoques contrários:  Examinar o uso de  raça e  status socioecónomico nas pesquisas e políticas para HIV/Aids no Brasil e os Estados Unidos de uma perspectiva interseccional (Mirror Opposites: Examining Race and Socioeconomic Status in HIV/AIDS Research and Policies in Brazil and the United States from an Intersectional Perspective). Saúde da População Negra da Coleção Negras e Negros: Pesquisa e Debates. (Health of the Black Population: Study and Debates).  In F. Lopes, L.E. Batista & J. Werneck (Eds.). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: DP at Alii. 

2011

Bowleg, L., Teti, M., Massie, J., Patel, A., Malebranche, D.J. & Tschann, J.M.  (2011). “What does it Take to be a Man? What is a real man?”: Black heterosexual men’s masculinity ideologies and sexual HIV risk. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 13(5), 545-559.  PMID: 21390949

Choi, K. H., Bowleg, L., & Neilands, T.B. (2011). The effects of sexism, psychological distress, and difficult sexual situations on U.S. women's sexual risk behaviors. AIDS Education and Prevention, 23(5), 397-411. doi: 10.1521/aeap.2011.23.5.397

Teti, M. & Bowleg, L. (2011).  Shattering the myth of invulnerability: Exploring the prevention needs of sexual minority women living with HIV/AIDS. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 23, 69-88.

Teti, M., Bowleg, L., & Lloyd, L. (2011).  "Pain on top of pain, hurtness on top of hurtness": Social discrimination, psychological well-being, and sexual risk among women living with HIV/AIDS.  International Journal of Sexual Health, 22(4).

2010

Teti, M., Bowleg, L., Cole, R., Lloyd, L., Rubinstein, S., Spencer, S., Ricksecker, A.E., Berhane, Z. & Gold, M. (2010). A mixed methods evaluation of the effect of the Protect and Respect intervention on the condom use and disclosure practices of women living with HIV/AIDS. AIDS and Behavior, 14(3), 567-579.

Estes, L.J., Lloyd, L.E., Teti, M., Raja, S., Bowleg, L., Allgood, K.L., et al. (2010).  Perceptions of audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (ACASI) among women in an HIV-positive prevention program.  PLoS ONE 5(2): e9149. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009149.

Bowleg, L., Valera, P., Teti, M. & Tschann, J.M. (2010).  Silences, gestures, and words: Nonverbal and verbal communication about HIV risk and condom use in Black/African American heterosexual relationships.  Health Communication, 25(1), 1-11.  PMID: 20390673

Cooper-Nicols, M. & Bowleg, L. (2010).  “My voice is being heard”: Exploring the experiences of gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth in schools.   Beyond progress, beyond marginalization: LGBTQ youth in educational contexts.  In C.C. Bertram, M.S. Crowley, & S.G. Massey (Eds.) (pp. 15-51).   NY: Peter Lang.

2009

Teti, M., Bowleg, L. & Spencer, S.  (2009).  Who helps the helpers?  A clinical supervision model to support peers and health educators who deliver sexual risk reduction interventions to people living with HIV/AIDS.   Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 8(4), 430-446.

2008

Bowleg, L., Neilands, T.B.,  & Choi, K.H. (2008).  Evaluating the validity and reliability of a modified Schedule of Sexist Events: Implications for public health research on women’s HIV risk behaviors.  Women and Health, 47(2), 19-40.

Bowleg, L., Burkholder, G., Teti, M. & Craig, M. L.  (2008).  The complexities of outness: Psychosocial predictors of coming out to others among Black lesbian and bisexual women. Journal of LGBT Health Research, 4(4), 153-166.

Bowleg, L.  (2008).  When Black + Woman + Lesbian? ≠ Black Lesbian Woman: The methodological challenges of qualitative and quantitative intersectionality research.  Sex Roles, 59(5-6), 312-325. doi:10.1007/s11199-008-9400-z

Bowleg, L., Brooks, K., & Ritz, S.F. (2008). “Bringing home more than a paycheck:” An exploratory analysis of Black lesbians’ experiences of stress and coping in the workplace, Journal of Lesbian Studies, 12(1) 69-84.

Quinlen, K., Bowleg, L., & Ritz, S.F. (2008). Virtually invisible women: Women with disabilities in mainstream psychological theory and research. Review of Disability Studies, 4(3), 4-17.

2007

Teti, M., Bowleg, L., Rubinstein, S., Lloyd, L., Berhane, Z., & Gold M.  (2007).  Present but not accounted for:  Exploring the sexual risk practices and intervention needs of non-heterosexually identified women in a prevention program for women with HIV/AIDS.  Journal of LGBT Health Research, 3(4), 37-51.

Bowleg, L.  (2007).  The health risks of being Black, Latino, Woman, and/or poor:  Redefining women’s health within  the context of social inequality.  Invited chapter to Lectures in the Psychology of Women (4th ed., pp. 204-219). J.C. Chrisler, C. Golden, P.D. Rozee (Eds). Boston: McGraw Hill. status among minorities. In S. Loue (Ed.) (pp. 41-64). Sexualities and identities of minority women.  NY: Springer.

2004

Bowleg, L. (2004). Love, sex, and masculinity in sociocultural context: HIV concerns and condom use among African American men in heterosexual relationships.  Men and Masculinities, 7(2),166-186.

Bowleg, L., Craig, M., & Burkholder, G.  (2004). Rising and surviving: A conceptual model of active coping among Black lesbians. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 10(3), 229-240.

Bowleg, L., Lucas, K.,J., & Tschann, J.M. (2004). “The ball was always in his court”:  An exploratory analysis of relationship scripts, sexual scripts, and condom use among African American women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28(1), 70-82.

Bowleg, L.  (2004). Risk behavior. In M. Kimmel & A. Aronson (Ed.) Men and masculinities: A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia (pp. 675-677). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.

Bowleg, L.  (2004). Risk behavior, sexual. In M. Kimmel & A. Aronson (Ed.) Men and masculinities: A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia (pp. 678-680). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.

Bowleg, L.  (2004). Men of color. In M. Kimmel  & A. Aronson (Ed.)  Men and masculinities: A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia (pp. 520-524).  Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.

Bowleg, L.  (2004). Condom use. In M. Kimmel & A. Aronson (Eds.)  Men and masculinities: A social, cultural, and historical encyclopedia  (pp. 171-173). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio Press.

2003

Bowleg, L., Huang, J., Brooks, K., Black, A., & Burkholder, G.   (2003).  Triple jeopardy and beyond:  Multiple minority stress and resilience among Black lesbians.  Journal of Lesbian Studies, 7(4), 87-108.

Bowleg, L. (2003).   Varying angles and wider lenses: A multicultural transformation of the undergraduate social psychology course.  In P. Bronstein & K. Quina (Eds.), Teaching gender and multicultural awareness: Resources for the psychology classroom (pp. 59-72). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Bowleg, L., Brooks, K., Huang, J., Black, A., & Burkholder, G.   (2003).  Triple jeopardy and beyond:  Multiple minority stress and resilience among Black lesbians.  In K.  F. Balsam (Ed.),  Trauma, stress, and sexual minority women: Rising like the phoenix (pp. 87-108).  Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press.

2000

Bowleg, L., Belgrave, F.Z., & Reisen, C. (2000).  Gender roles, relationship power strategies & precautionary sexual self-efficacy:  Implications for women’s condom/latex barrier use [Special issue: Gender, power, and women’s relationships: Implications for HIV].  Sex Roles, 42(7/8), 613-635.

1990s

Bowleg, L.  (1992).  Pollutants, criminals and incubators: The conceptualization of women under state HIV/AIDS laws.  Iris: A Journal About Women, 27, 11-20.

Stepakoff, S., & Bowleg, L. (1998).  Sexual identity in sociocultural context: Clinical implications of multiple marginalization.   In R.A. Javier & W.G. Herron (Eds.).  Personality development and psychotherapy in our diverse society:  A source book (pp. 618-653).  Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.