Leila J. Rupp (born 1950) is a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. Feminism incorporates the position that society prioritizes the male po ...

, and

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of Feminist Studies at the

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. She is an alumna of

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

, a member of the Seven Sisters women's colleges, where she received her bachelor's degree in 1972 as well as Ph.D. in 1976, both in history. Her areas of interest include women's movements,

sexuality Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually. This involves biological, psychological, physical, erotic, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied wit ...

, and

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and

women's history Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievement over a period of ...

. She was the editor of the ''

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'' from 1996 to 2004. An out

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, her partner is

Verta Taylor Verta Ann Taylor (born 1948) is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with focuses on gender, sexuality, social movements, and women's health. Education and career Taylor earned a degree in social work from I ...

, with whom she coauthored several works.Leila J. Rupp and Verta Taylor, "Becoming the Professors of Lesbian Love", in Michelle Gibson, ''Lesbian Academic Couples''.

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, 2006. .

Publications

*Leila J. Rupp
''Transnational Women's Movements''

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, Mainz:

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, 2011, retrieved: June 22, 2011. *Leila J. Rupp, ''Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women'' (New York: New York University Press, 2009). *Leila J. Rupp and

, ''Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. *Leila J. Rupp, ''A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, paperback 2002). *''Vytou_ená minulost'' zech translation, by Vera Sokolová(Prague: One Woman Press, 2001). *Leila J. Rupp, ''Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997). *Leila J. Rupp and

, ''Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; Columbus: Ohio State University Press aperback edition 1990). Excerpt reprinted in Perspectives on the American Past (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, forthcoming). *Leila J. Rupp, ''Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945'' (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978).

References

21st-century American historians American feminists 1950 births Living people University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Bryn Mawr College alumni Feminist studies scholars American lesbian writers American women historians Lambda Literary Award winners 21st-century American women writers Historians of LGBT topics American historians Lesbian academics {{US-historian-stub