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

Author/Contributor(s):	Rupp, Leila J
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	05/01/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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