Louisiana Women - Their Lives and Times

Informationen zum Autor Janet Allured (Editor) JANET ALLURED is a professor of history at McNeese State University, coeditor of Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times , Volume I (Georgia) and coeditor of Louisiana Legacies: Readings in the History of the Pelican State . Judith F. Gentry (Editor) > Klappentext A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social! cultural! and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana! it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Zusammenfassung Ranging from the colonial period to the present, these seventeen biographical essays provide 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 either abided by prevailing gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves and other women.

Product details

• Authors: Janet (EDT)/ Gentry Allured, Janet Gentry Allured
• Assisted by: Janet Allured (Editor), Judith F Gentry (Editor), Judith F. Gentry (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2009
• EAN: 9780820329475
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2947-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Southern Women: Their Lives an; Southern Women: Their Lives an
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous