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Taylor, Leslie A. "Veritable Hotheads: Lesbian Scandals in the United States, 1926-36," American Studies, University of Iowa, May 1998.
Between 1926 and 1936, when American culture debated whether lesbianism was congenital or acquired, a series of scandals emerged including a sexological study of “normal” women conducted by the Bureau of Social Hygiene; the closing of the Broadway play The Captive; the obscenity trial clearing Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness; and the adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play The Children’s Hour into the film These Three. The boundary separating acceptable from scandalous lesbianism depended on the form of the representation, the theory of sexual identity proposed, the industry that produced it, and the susceptibility of the audience expected to consume it.
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