'Much of women’s interest in dogs during the early twentieth century was expressed in terms of the increasingly prominent middle-class culture of feminine consumption and display... Fashion-conscious dog owners were routinely depicted in magazines and the daily press as buyers of dogs as luxury items in the same way as they might consume any other leisure-oriented good. [note: 'Sarah Cheang, “Women, Pets and Imperialism: The British Pekingese Dog and Nostalgia for Old China,” Journal of British Studies 45, no. 2 (April 2006): 359–86, at 373–36; Amato, Beastly Possessions, 43–44; Kete, Beast in the Boudoir, 84–89.']' (299)