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'''Elizabeth Fox-Genovese''' ([[May 28]], [[1941]]- [[January 2]], [[2007]]) was a [[feminist]] [[United States|American]] [[historian]] particularly known for her writing about women in the [[Antebellum South]]. She was also a primary voice of the [[social conservatism|conservative]] women's movement.

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==Biography==

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The daughter of [[Cornell University|Cornell]] professor [[Edward Whiting Fox]], a specialist in the history of [[modern Europe]], Fox-Genovese studied at the [[Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris]] in France and attended [[Bryn Mawr College]] where she received a [[B.A.]] and [[Harvard University]] where she received a [[Master's degree|M.A.]] and a [[Ph.D.]] in history. She was a professor of history at [[Emory University]], where she was the Eleonore Raoul Professor of the [[Humanities]] and the founding director of the Institute for [[Women's Studies]]. At the Institute, she began the first [[doctorate|doctoral]] program in Women's Studies in the [[U.S.]] and personally directed thirty-two doctoral [[dissertation]]s. In 2003 [[George W. Bush]] awarded her the [[National Humanities Medal]].<ref name="Obit">{{cite news |title=Obituaries: Atlanta: Dr. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, unorthodox scholar |url=http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/obits/stories/2007/01/04/metobfoxgenovese0104a.html |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | date=2007-01-04 |accessdate=2007-01-05 }}</ref> She was married to and sometimes collaborated with fellow historian [[Eugene D. Genovese]].

In 1995, Fox-Genovese publicly [[religious conversion|converted]] to [[Roman Catholicism]], due in part to the pride and self-centeredness that she said she witnessed in the [[secularism|secular]] [[academia|academy]].<ref name="Conversion">{{cite_journal|url=http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0004/articles/fox-genovese.html |title=A Conversion Story | author=Elizabeth Fox–Genovese | journal=First Things | issue=102 | date=April 2000 | pages=39-43 | accessdate=2007-01-05}}</ref> Some found her reputation as a feminist as being at odds with her conversion, but she herself found it to be "wholly consistent"<ref name="Obit"/> and wrote, "Sad as it may seem, my experience with radical, upscale feminism only reinforced my growing mistrust of individual pride."<ref name="Conversion"/>

'''White Lighting''' is a action film released in 1973 by [[United Artists]] and staring [[Burt Reynolds]] as moonshiner Gator Mcklusky.

==Scholarship==

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Fox-Genovese's academic interests changed from [[French history]] to the history of women before the [[American Civil War]], and Virginia Shadron, assistant dean at Emory, said that ''Within the Plantation Household'' cemented her reputation as a scholar of women in the [[Old South]].<ref name="Obit"/>

Gator is serving time in an [[Arkansas]] prison for moonshing when he learns from his cousin that his kid brother was murdered for protesting with his hippie friends the sherrif J.C Conners played by [[Ned Beatty]] was the one behind it Gator knows of the sheriff taking money from local moonshiners so he agrees to go undercover and try expose the sheriff by getting in with moon runners he gets a job running shine for Roy Boone an soon starts having an affair with his girl freind lou after a shootout with hot shiner big bear after he gets out he gos ater the sheriff to finish buissness.

Fox-Genovese also wrote scholarly and popular works on feminism itself, and through all of her writings, she alienated many [[radical feminists]] and attracted many conservative feminists. [[Princeton University]] history professor [[Sean Wilentz]] said, "She probably did more for the conservative women's movement than anyone.... [Her] voice came from inside the academy and updated the ideas of the conservative women's movement. She was one of their most influential intellectual forces."<ref name="Obit"/>

==CultSelected statuswritings==

*''The Origins of Physiocracy: Economic Revolution and Social Order in Eighteenth-century France'', Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1976. ISBN 978-0801410062

White Lightning is considered a classic 70s action film in which it has car chases gun battles and fist fights the films music has also been used to great effect in 2003 film [[Kill Bill]].

*''Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism'' with Eugene D. Genovese, New York York: Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0195031577

* ''Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South'', series on Gender and American Culture, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. ISBN 978-0807842324

*''Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism'', University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0807843727

*''"Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life": How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women'', Anchor reprint, 1996 ISBN 978-0385467919

*''Marriage On Trial: In Defense Of An Endangered Institution'', Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1932236385

*''The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview'' with Eugene D. Genovese, Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0521615624

==References==

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==External links==

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*[http://www.womensstudies.emory.edu/facstaff/faculty_foxgenovese.shtml Biography of Fox-Genovese] at the Women's Studies Department at Emory

*[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07fox-genovese.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin Obituary of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese] at the ''[[New York Times]]''

*[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2U0NzViMDdmZmViYjVlYjc2NTY0MzRkYjJlYzQzNDI= Obituary of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese] at the ''[[National Review]]''

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