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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (Ph.D., Social Anthropology, Cambridge University) is a professor of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, with an adjunct appointment in anthropology and history. Her research has pioneered the study of lesbian history, a subject on which she has published widely, including the prize-winning book, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: the History of a Lesbian Community. She is currently working on One Woman, Two Lives: Gender, Class and Sexuality in 20th Century America, the life story of Julia Boyer Reinstein an upper-middle class woman, born in rural western New York in 1906, who lived her early life and her later life as a lesbian, but was married and had children in her middle years. She recently published an edited collection, Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics (with Agatha Beins).