Publications
Books
2013
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Laura T. Hamilton. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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2002
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Articles
2012
Hamilton, Laura, and Elizabeth A. Armstrong. "The (Mis)Education of Monica and Karen." Contexts. 11(4):22-27. (link)
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Paula England, and Alison C. K. Fogarty. "Accounting for Women's Orgasm and Sexual Enjoyment in College Hookups and Relationships." American Sociological Review. 77(3):435-462. (link)
Backstrom, Laura, Elizabeth A. Armstrong, and Jennifer Puentes. "Women's Negotiation of Cunnilingus in College Hookups and Relationships." Journal of Sex Research. 49(1):1-12. (pdf)
2010
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Laura Hamilton, and Paula England. "Is Hooking Up Bad for Young Women? Compared to What?" Contexts. (link)
2009
Hamilton, Laura and Elizabeth A. Armstrong. "Gendered Sexuality in Young Adulthood: Double Binds and Flawed Options." Gender & Society. 23:589-616. (pdf)
2008
Stevens, Mitchell L., Elizabeth A. Armstrong, and Richard Arum. "Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub: Empirical and Theoretical Advances in the Sociology of Higher Education." Annual Review of Sociology. 34:127-151. (pdf)
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Mary Bernstein. "Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements." Sociological Theory. 26:74-99. (pdf)
2006
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Suzanna M. Crage. "Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth." American Sociological Review. 71:724-751. (pdf)
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney. "Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multi-level, Integrative Approach to Party Rape." Social Problems. 53:483-499. (pdf)
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. and Martin S. Weinberg. "Identity and Competence: The Use of Culture in the Interpretation of Sexual Images." Sociological Perspectives. 49:411-432. (pdf)
Chapters
2009
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., Paula England, and Alison C. K. Fogarty. "Orgasm in College Hookups and Relationships." Families as the Really Are, edited by Barbara Risman, W.W. Norton & Company. (Link to Book)
2005
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. "From Struggle to Settlement: The Crystallization of a Field of Lesbian/Gay Organizations in San Francisco, 1969-1973." Pp. 161-187 in Social Movements and Organization Theory. Edited by Gerald Davis, Doug McAdam, W. Richard Scott, and Mayer Zald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Link to Book) (pdf)
2002
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. "Crisis, Collective Creativity, and the Generation of New Organizational Forms: The Transformation of Lesbian/Gay Organizations in San Francisco." Pp. 361-395 in Research in the Sociology of Organizations (vol. 19). Edited by Michael Lounsbury and Marc J. Ventresca. Oxford, UK: JAI Press. (pdf)
1995
Armstrong, Elizabeth A. "Traitors to the Cause? Understanding the Lesbian/Gay 'Bisexuality Debates.'" Pp. 199-217 in Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions.Edited by Naomi Tucker. New York: Haworth Press (pdf)
"In this bold book, Armstrong and Hamilton capture the strikingly different pathways women undergraduates can take through public universities-party, professional, or mobility-and show how the dominant campus culture indulges the upper-middle class and limits the prospect of the upwardly mobile. The authors show the complex connections between parental resources, sociability, educational outcome, post-graduation lives, and the importance of the right brand of shoes. This book illuminates the realities of the college experience today, when an adult life without crushing debt is fast becoming the privilege of the few."