A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America

by Leila J. Rupp

2020-12-31 19:46:56

With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining and entirely readable story of same-sex desire across ... Read more
With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining and entirely readable story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries.

"Most extraordinary about Leila J. Rupp''s indeed short, two-hundred-page history of ''same-sex love and sexuality'' is not that it manages to account for such a variety of individuals, races, and classes or take in such a broad chronological and thematic range, but rather that it does all this with such verve, lucidity, and analytical rigor. . . . [A]n elegant, inspiring survey." —John Howard, Journal of American History
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Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in
Print pages241
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication date May 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780226731551
Leila J. Rupp is Professor of History at Ohio State University. She is the author of Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945 (Princeton) and coauthor, with Verta Taylor, of...

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