The ATHG is sponsoring two sessions in conjunction with the AHA
meeting in Seattle, January 1997.  On Friday, 9 January, 9:30-11:30,
Convention Center, Room 305, there will be a session on "Violence in
the 19th-cent. United States,: chaired by W. Scott Haine, Holy Names
College.  The papers will be "Murder, Drinking, and Gender in the
Early National United States: The Case of Peter Lung," by Scott C.
Martin, Bowling Green State Univ., and "Whiskey, Manhood, and Death:
Negotiating Gender, Drink, and Violence in the Turn-of-the-Century
Rural Midwest," by Elaine Frantz Parsons, Johns Hopkins Univ., with
comment from Jerome J. Nadelhaft, Univ of Maine at Orono, and W.
Scott Haine.
 
A second session will be the same day at 2:20-4:30 in the same room.
The session is entitled "Images of Gender in Alcohol and Tobacco
Advertisements: The Case of France, Great Britain, and North America,
1860-1960," chaired by William J. Rorabaugh, Univ. of Washington at
Seattle.  The papers are "Sociability, Sophistication, and
Innovation: Gender Representations in French Alcohol and Tobacco
Adverstisements, 1860-1960," by W. Scott Haine, Holy Names College;
"Appealing to Women in Beer Advertising in Interwar Britain," by
David W. Gutzke, Southwest Missouri State Univ.; and "Smoke and
Mirrors: Gender Representation in North American Tobacco and Alcohol
Advertisement s before 1950," by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Malaspina
University-College (Canada).  Comment will come from Patricia E.
Prestwich, Univ. of Alberta, the president of the ATHG.
 
 
David M. Fahey
History Department
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA
tel. 513-529-5134
FAX 513-529-3224
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