num_pages: 232
description: With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even 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
language: English
title: A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America
titlecomplete: A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America
genres: History, Sociology, Gender Studies, American History, Sexuality, Read For School, Queer, Nonfiction, Feminism, LGBT
ratings_count: 176
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Studies
publisher: University of Chicago Press