Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
| Elizabeth Fox-Genovese | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Elizabeth Ann Fox May 28, 1941 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | January 2, 2007 (aged 65) Atlanta, Georgia, US |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Occupation | Historian, writer |
Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese (May 28, 1941 – January 2, 2007) was a feminist American historian particularly known for her writing about women and society in the Antebellum South. She became a primary voice of the conservative women's movement. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2003.
Elizabeth Ann Fox was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Cornell professor Edward Whiting Fox, a specialist in the history of modern Europe, and Elizabeth Mary (née Simon) Fox, whose brother was real estate mogul Robert Simon. Her father was Protestant, of English and Scotch-Irish descent; her mother was Jewish, from a family that immigrated from Germany. Elizabeth Fox studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in France and attended Bryn Mawr College, where in 1963 she received a BA in French and history. At Harvard University, she earned a MA in history in 1966 and a PhD in 1974.
In 1969 she married fellow historian Eugene D. Genovese and changed her surname to Fox-Genovese. They collaborated on some historical works in the course of their careers and had a professional partnership. In the 1970s they founded the journal, Marxist Perspectives, publishing the first issue in Spring 1978. Described as "brilliant but short-lived", it was published into the early 1980s. In 2012 Dissent magazine announced plans to digitize issues of the journal in a collaboration for open access with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and make it available online.
After completing her PhD, Fox first taught at Binghamton University and The University of Rochester. In 1986 she was recruited as founding director for the Institute for Women's Studies at Emory University. At the Institute, she served as director and began the first doctoral program in Women's Studies in the US; she personally directed thirty-two doctoral dissertations. She also taught history as the Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities.
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