A Desired Past

by Rupp, Leila J.

• ISBN13: 9780226731551
• ISBN10: 0226731553
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Thinking about Aunt Leila	1	(11)
In the Beginning: Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America	12	(25)
Worlds of Men, Worlds of Women: Sex and Romantic Friendship in an Industrializing and Expanding Nation	37	(36)
Definitions and Deviance: Sexual Transformations at the Turn of the Century	73	(28)
Coming Together: Contested Identities and the Emergence of Communities	101	(29)
Becoming a People: Lesbian and Gay Worlds and the Organization of Resistance	130	(40)
Conclusion: Something Old, Something New	170	(31)
Notes	201	(10)
References	211	(12)
Index	223