Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy

Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University, England in 1972 based on her research about the Waunan of the Chocó province, Colombia. Kennedy was a founding member of Women's Studies at SUNY, Buffalo where she taught for twenty-eight years. She is author of *Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community*, which received the Jesse Barnard Award for the best book on women in the field of Sociology in 1994, the …