At the American Historical Association meeting in Chicago there will be a
session, Gendered Spaces: Drinking, Leisure, and Public Culture in the
U.S., China, and Africa," on Sunday, 9 January 2000, 11 am, Michigan Room
B, Sheraton hotel.  Chaired by Prasenjit Duara, Chicago, the session
includes papers by Elaine Frantz Parsons, Wisconsin at Oshkosh, "Saloon
Invasions: Boundary-Crossing Women in the Midwestern U.S., 1872-1919," Di
Wang, Texas A & M, "Struggle for Drink and Entertainment: Men, Women, and
the Police in Early Twentieth-Century Chengdu," and Rona Peligal, Human
Rights Watch, "'We Would Not Fit into Any Other Occupatiion': Women, Beer
Brewing, and Public Spance in Urban Tanzania, 1945-65," with comment by
Charles Ambler, Texas at El Paso.