Into eternity

Dr. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, great scholar, thinker, writer, teacher and member of the faithful, has gone — all too soon — from this world.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese was the Eléonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History at Emory University, where she was the founding director of the Institute for Women’s Studies. She also served as editor of The Journal of The Historical Society. She is the author of Women and the Future of the Family (2000), “Feminism is Not the Story of My Life”: How the Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch With the Real Concerns of Women (1996), Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism (1991), and Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988), which received the C. Hugh Holman Prize of the Society for the Society of Southern Literature, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize of the Southern Association of Women Historians, and was named an outstanding book of the year by the Augustus Meyer Foundation for the Study of Human Rights.

She co-edited Reconstructing History: The Emergence of a Historical Society (1999) with Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn. writes widely on women’s issues, as well as contemporary culture, education, and social issues, and served as an expert witness for the VMI and Citadel cases.

Feminism and the culture are topics that generate more heat than light. Into the public forum, she brought light.

May she rest in peace.