Louisiana Women - Their Lives and Times

Informationen zum Autor Shannon Frystak (Editor) SHANNON FRYSTAK is an associate professor of history at East Stroudsburg University and author of Our Minds on Freedom: Women and the Struggle for Black Equality in Louisiana, 1924-1967. Mary Farmer-Kaiser (Editor) MARY FARMER-KAISER is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and author of Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation. Klappentext Moving chronologically from the colonial period to the present, this collection of seventeen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in the state. The contributors look at ways in which the women they profile either abided by prevailing gender norms or negotiated new models of behaviour for themselves and other women. Zusammenfassung Highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state and showcases how these women affected its history.

Product details

• Authors: Shannon (EDT)/ Farmer-kaiser Frystak
• Assisted by: Mary Farmer-Kaiser (Editor), Shannon Frystak (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2016
• EAN: 9780820342702
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4270-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous