New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) by Taïna TUHKUNEN

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

“…Concluding on the absence of "double jeopardy" in being black and a woman in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the article highlights Louisiana’s legal, social, economic, and cultural specificity in the antebellum South—and, more generally, in the nineteenth-century United States.…”
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