In a January conference in Chicago, the American Historical Association hosted discussions and heard papers such as the following: "Homosexuality in Nineteenth-Century France"; "Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederast's Inversions"; "Configurations Within a Pattern of Violence: The Geography of Sexual Danger in Mexico"; "Old Missus and Dixie: Gender and Social Inversion in Blackface"; and "Under the Skirts: Menstrual Products in American Advertising."

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