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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Topic TBAWednesday, April 2, 2003
Location: TBA
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese earned her Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1974. She joined the Emory faculty in 1986 as the director of the newly formed Institute for Women's Studies. Among other grants and awards, she has received the C. Hugh Holman Prize from the Society for the Society of Southern Literature, the ACLS & Ford Foundation Fellowship, a research grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a grant from the American Bar Association.
Her current research and teaching interests include the history of the American South, religious history, Southern literature, and feminist theory and history of feminist thought. She now serves as editor for The Journal of The Historical Society, and she is a frequent guest speaker for universities and organizations around the world.
Ms. Genovese has written, edited or introduced numerous volumes, articles and essays, including:
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- Feminism Without Illusions : A Critique of Individualism
- French Women and the Age of Enlightenment (Introduction)
- Parlor Ladies and Ebony Drudges : African American Women, Class, and Work in a South Carolina Community
- Fruits of Merchant Capital : Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism
- The Origins of Physiocracy : Economic Revolution and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century France
- Beulah (Library of Southern Civilization)
- Southern Mothers : Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing (Southern Literary Studies)