Leila J. Rupp is a historian

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 study of all history in time. If the individual is...

, feminist, and professor

Professor

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 of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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. She is an alumna of Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....

, a member of the Seven Sisters

Seven Sisters

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 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

Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...

, and LGBT

LGBT history

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 and women's history

Women's history

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She was the editor of the Journal of Women's History

Journal of Women's History

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from 1996 to 2004.

Publications

• Leila J. Rupp: Transnational Women's Movements, European History Online
  European History Online
  European History Online is an academic website that publishes articles on the history of Europe between the period of 1450 and 1950 according to the principle of open access. EGO is issued by the Institute of European History in Mainz in cooperation with the Center for Digital Humanities in Trier ...
  
  , Mainz: Institute of European History, 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 Verta Taylor, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). xiii, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 978-0-226-73158-2
• 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 [Czech 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 Verta Taylor, 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 [paperback 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).