Name Leila Rupp | Role Historian | |
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Nominations Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies Books Sapphistries: A Global History of, A Desired Past: A Short Hist, Drag Queens at the 801 C, Worlds of women, Mobilizing women for war |
Leila J. Rupp (born 1950) is a historian, feminist, and professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an alumnus of Bryn Mawr College, 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, and LGBT and women's history.

She was the editor of the Journal of Women's History from 1996 to 2004.
An out lesbian, her partner is Verta Taylor, with whom she coauthored several works.
Publications
Excerpt reprinted in Perspectives on the American Past (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, forthcoming).
References
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