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Combines scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into a story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries. The book shows what it means to say that sexuality has a history by pointing to experiences of love/desire that were understood in radically different ways.

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"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

A Desired Past A Short History of SameSex Love

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/05/2002
      ISBN13: 9780226731568, 978-0226731568
      ISBN10: 0226731561

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Combines scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into a story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries. The book shows what it means to say that sexuality has a history by pointing to experiences of love/desire that were understood in radically different ways.

      Trade Review
      "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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