Louisiana Women
November 10, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6475015-louisiana-women Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times by Janet Allured (Editor), Judith F. Gentry (Editor) Moving chronologically from the colonial…
Dr. Judith F. Gentry
Judith Gentry, Professor of History (Ph.D. , Rice University, 1969). Gentry’s research and teaching focus on Civil War history, U.S. economic history, U.S. military history, women’s history, and Louisiana history. Her publications include, “What if the Constitution as Written Had Provided for Equal Rights for Women and Men?” in What if the American Political System Were Different? (ME Sharpe, Inc., 1992) and “A Confederate Success in Europe: The Erlanger Loan” in the Journal of Southern History (1970). She has also published several works in Louisiana History, including “John A. Stevenson: Confederate Adventurer” (1994), “White Gold: The Confederate Government and Cotton in Louisiana” (1992), and “A Private Fortune and the Democratic Process” (1987). In addition, she has co-authored several articles examining the role of tenure in higher education in Academe: Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors. She has also published a critical assessment of the role of women in the Southern Historical Association, 1934-1984, in the Journal of Southern History (1986). Dr.Gentry has served as president of the Southern Association of Women Historians and of the Louisiana Historical Association. Her current research includes: “Confederates and Cotton in East Texas”, "The Rio Grande Cotton Trade Interrupted" and "Andrew W. McKee: Confederate Cotton Bureau Agent" in Louisiana. Dr Judith Gentry is currently co-editor with Janet Allured of an anthology consisting of chapter-long biographies of seventeen Louisiana women (forthcoming, University of Georgia Press) from the colonial period to the twenty-first century. Dr. Gentry’s book-length study of a Korean War soldier in combat, as a prisoner of war, and as a McCarthy-era soldier suspected of having been brainwashed by the Chinese communists is under consideration for publication by Texas A&M University Press.
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