“Accustomed to Female Domination”: Women, Mass Media, and Animal Intimacy in Interwar Britain

This essay analyzes four visual sources that shed light on the relationship between gender and animal intimacy in interwar Britain. They are all photographs appeared print media, relate to production of wildlife films. The first is a montage six showing woman’s friendship with “strange savage beasts” London Zoo; second an advertisement for popular remedy; third shows director shooting zoo film; fourth contains shots from documentary made 1938. focuses three women—Gladys Callow, Mary Field, Evelyn Spice—all former schoolteachers who became involved By analyzing this series images, connections contemporary ideas about gender, tameness, colonial domination established, reflecting shifts depiction early twentieth-century