La Nouvelle-Orléans au XIXe siècle : femmes de couleur libres, femmes de pouvoir ?

This article dwells on the emergence of a few feminine figures in the studies conducted by historians of Louisiana since the 1980s and examines the relative invisibility of women in the early historiography of New Orleans’s antebellum period (1800-1860). Surprisingly at first sight, those women are...

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Main Author: Nathalie Dessens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2010-09-01
Series:Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/caliban/2073