In the Canine Archives of Sex: Radclyffe Hall, Una Troubridge and their Dogs.
How does attention to dogs open up understanding of the queer, and more specifically, the Sapphic, past? This article examines the forgotten enmeshments of lesbian and pedigree dog subcultures in 1920s England. It takes as its case study one of the best‐known couples of Sapphic modernity, Radclyffe...
| Published in: | Gender & History Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 994 - 1012 |
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