About the Author

Janet Allured is an associate professor of history and director of the Women's Studies Program at McNeese State University. Judith F. Gentry is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Reviews

With its beautifully conceived framework and its compelling, highly readable essays, Louisiana Women restores important but neglected women to the historical narrative, from the colonial period to the present. Yet it is more than just an exercise in recovery. Each of the essays uses the lives of particular women to highlight broader themes in the state's history - and the history of the South as well. Louisiana Women is a shining example of how women's history transforms our understanding of history more generally. - Laura F. Edwards, author of Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era