Description: In Remapping Second-Wave Feminism, Janet Allured attempts to reshape the national narrative by focusing on the grassroots women's movement in the South, particularly in Louisiana.
Brief description: JANET ALLURED, retired professor of history and women's studies at McNeese State University, is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Arkansas. She has numerous peer-reviewed publications on Southern women as changemakers, including Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 1 (Georgia); Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997 (Georgia); and, most recently, Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice: Interracial Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, a collection of biographies of white and Black laywomen and clergywomen, coedited with M. Kathryn Armistead. She currently resides in Arkansas.
Review Quotes: A riveting read. Allured captures beautifully the energy and passion of Louisianans' work toward justice for women--black, white, straight, lesbian, religious, secular. She complicates the stereotypical notion of the Deep South and its storied prejudices with the words of the people whose efforts yielded great benefits for women throughout the Pelican State. Anyone assuming that the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment equaled a failure of feminism in the South will have her mind changed by Allured's painstaking research and graceful writing.--Rebecca Sharpless "author of Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960"