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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. ==Biography== 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.〔(Tribute to Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ), ''Chronicle of Higher Education''〕 In the 1970s they founded the journal, ''Marxist Perspectives,''〔 publishing the first issue in Spring 1978.〔(''Marxist Perspectives'', Vol.1, No.1 ), The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, accessed June 14, 2014〕 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.〔("'Marxist Perspectives' Revived" ), ''Dissent'' blog, April 18, 2012, accessed June 15, 2014〕 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.〔 In 1993 L. Virginia Gould, one of her former graduate students, named Fox-Genovese and Emory University as co-defendants in a sexual discrimination and harassment lawsuit. Emory settled the lawsuit out of court. Financial details were not released.〔.〕 Fox-Genovese grew up in a household of secular intellectuals who were respectful of Christianity, but nonbelieving. For most of her adult life, she considered herself Christian only "in the amorphous cultural sense of the word." Having "thoroughly imbibed materialist philosophy," she inhabited "a world that took it as a matter of faith that 'God is dead'." In 1995, however, Fox-Genovese publicly converted to Roman Catholicism, due in part to her deep unease about "moral relativism" (since she found "a world in which each followed his or her moral compass" neither rational nor viable). She said she was also reacting to the pride and self-centeredness that she had witnessed in the secular academy. Some observers regarded her reputation as a feminist as being at odds with her conversion, but she found it to be "wholly consistent."〔("Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: Unorthodox scholar" ), ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', January 4, 2007.〕 She wrote, "Sad as it may seem, my experience with radical, upscale feminism only reinforced my growing mistrust of individual pride."〔 Fox-Genovese died in 2007, aged 65, in Atlanta. She had lived with MS for 15 years. The following year, Eugene Genovese published a tribute to his wife, ''Miss Betsey: A Memoir of Marriage''.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elizabeth Fox-Genovese」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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