Author: Leila J. Rupp
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0226731561
ISBN 13: 978-0226731568
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0226731561
ISBN 13: 978-0226731568
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