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Eleanor Medhurst is a historian of queer fashion and culture and author of the blog Dressing Dykes. She has worked on Brighton Museum’s exhibitions Queer Looks and Queer the Pier, and is pursuing a PhD in lesbian craft history at the University of Brighton. This is her first book.

• List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE: WE WERE ALWAYS HERE 1. Tunics and Violets: Sappho and Her Afterlives 2. Christina of Sweden, Girl King 3. Anne Lister: Diaries and Dress 4. Literary Lovers: 1910s Japan PART TWO: PARIS TO HARLEM: THE LESBIAN 1920s 5. Paris Lesbos: The Sapphic Capital 6. The Queer Modernism of British Vogue 7. The Complete Appearance of a Lady: Trans Lesbians in Weimar Berlin 8. In the Life: Lady Lovers of the Harlem Renaissance PART THREE: A BUTCH/FEMME INTERLUDE 9. Looking ‘Right’: The Mid-Century Lesbian Bar 10. A Note on Femmes PART FOUR: MIRACULOUS MASCULINITY 11. Breeches Roles and Female Husbands: Cross-Dressed Britain in the 1700s 12. Variety: Music Hall, Male Impersonation and a Turning Century 13. Gladys Bentley: A Sartorial History 14. Stormé DeLarverie and the Dawn of the Drag King PART FIVE: LESBIAN POLITICS, POLITICAL LESBIANS 15. The Lesbian Threat of the Suffragettes 16. Uniforms of the Second Wave: Lesbian Feminist Dress Codes 17. T-Shirts: The Billboards of the Body 18. The Fashion of Liberation Afterword Acknowledgements Notes Select Bibliography Index

‘Shines a much-needed spotlight on an entire group that’s too often been overshadowed, celebrating the ever-evolving style of the lesbian community.’