Title
Selling Alcohol as Medicine: Women, Health, and Public Relations in 1900
Document Type
Grant Proposal
Date Accepted
Summer 2011
Project Description/Abstract
Since 1995 I have been researching the Pabst Brewery product called Tonic, a medicinal beverage, containing more alcohol than beer, and marketed to women from 1887 into the 1940s. I have presented papers based on this research at four international conferences, and written a chapter on this topic for my book, Deconstructing Public Relations. I am now interested in writing a book devoted just to Pabst Tonic. During the Writing Institute at BSU last summer I finished a book outline, a chapter, and a book proposal. My goals with the Summer Grant are to prepare a detailed outline for the ten chapters and conduct two interviews in Milwaukee with local historians. By September I will be prepared to write the book manuscript. Marquette University Press in Milwaukee has expressed interest in the book.
Recommended Citation
Mickey, Thomas (2011). Selling Alcohol as Medicine: Women, Health, and Public Relations in 1900. CARS Summer Grants. Item 9.
https://vc.bridgew.edu/summer_grant/9