A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226731568)

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


Author: Leila J. Rupp
ISBN-10: 0226731561
ISBN-13: 9780226731568
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 241
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.44w x 0.63d