Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007)
Author of Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
About the Author
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities at Emory University, where she was founding director of Women's Studies.
Image credit: Women for Faith & Family
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Works by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview (2005) 129 copies
Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order (2008) 45 copies
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism (1983) 39 copies
History and Women, Culture and Faith, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Women Past and Present (2011) 4 copies
The Origins of Physiocracy: Economic Revolution and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century France (1976) 3 copies
History and Women, Culture and Faith, Volume 3: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Intersections: History,… (2011) 1 copy
History and Women, Culture and Faith, Volume 4: Selected Writings of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Explorations and… (2012) 1 copy
Associated Works
That Gentle Strength: Historical Perspectives on Women in Christianity (1990) — Contributor — 14 copies
In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History (1986) — Contributor — 13 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1941-05-28
- Date of death
- 2007-01-02
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Place of death
- Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Places of residence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Education
- Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Bryn Mawr College
Harvard University - Occupations
- historian
professor
author - Relationships
- Genovese, Eugene D. (husband)
Fox, Edward Whiting (father) - Organizations
- Emory University
- Awards and honors
- National Humanities Medal (2003)
- Short biography
- Elizabeth Ann Fox was born to a family of mixed ethnicities and religions. Her father Edward Whiting Fox, a Cornell professor who specialized in the history of modern Europe, was Protestant and of English and Scotch-Irish descent. Her mother Elizabeth Mary Simon Fox, was Jewish from a German-Jewish immigrant family. Elizabeth received a B.A. in French and history in 1963 from Bryn Mawr and studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She earned an M.A. and then a Ph.D. in history at Harvard. She taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of Rochester. In 1969, she married fellow historian Eugene D. Genovese, with whom she founded the journal Marxist Perspectives and sometimes co-wrote works. In 1986, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese began teaching history at Emory University, where she was named the Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities. She founded the Institute for Women's Studies, which she served as director until 1991, and started the first doctoral program in women's studies in the USA. Her original academic interest had been French history, but she changed to the history of women in the pre-Civil War Southern USA. Among her works were on the subject were Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988) and To Be Worthy of God’s Favor: Southern Women’s Defense and Critique of Slavery (1993). Elizabeth Fox-Genovese also wrote scholarly and popular works on feminism. In 1995, she converted to the Roman Catholicism faith. After her death in 2007, her husband published a tribute to his wife, Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage.
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