The Southern Historical Association’s 87th Annual Meeting
November 2021
Dangerous, Disorderly Damsels: Sex, Drugs, and the Urban New South
Presiding
Mara Keire, University of Oxford
Presenters
Virginia Cain, University of Alabama, “Openly and Notoriously: Prostitution and Respectability in Birmingham, Alabama 1880-1920”
Patricia McCourt, Mississippi State University, “’These Deleterious Drugs’: The Gendering of Addiction in the United States South and the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914″
Lindsay Silver, Louisiana State University, “Rethinking the Scarlet Sisterhood: Mobility and Respectability in High-Class Madam Networks”
Comments
Mara Keire
Stephanie Chalifoux, University of West Georgia
