OPEN UNIVERSITY JANUARY 4, 2007
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by Jacob T. Levy
The New Year and new semester bustle seems to mean that two pieces of sad news haven't yet been widely circulated; no press releases from the home institutions yet, for example. Two of the most distinctive, iconoclastic, and influential voices in the American academy have been lost in the past few days: George Mason sociologist/political scientist
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Just adding a quick note to say that Prof. Fox-Genovese will be missed. She added a great deal to our understanding of the Old South and, while her battles in terms of feminism and Catholicsm were often a bit over the top, she always stood her ground, often in front of slanderous personal attacks against her and her husband. May flights of angels welcome her home.
- kmdoakpark
January 4, 2007 at 2:25pm
Just adding a quick note to say that Prof. Fox-Genovese will be missed. She added a great deal to our understanding of the Old South and, while her battles in terms of feminism and Catholicsm were often a bit over the top, she always stood her ground, often in front of slanderous personal attacks against her and her husband. May flights of angels welcome her home.
- kmdoakpark
January 4, 2007 at 2:25pm
often in front of slanderous personal attacks against her and her husband
Radical feminists of the Friedan-Steinem-Greer-Smeal ilk give no quarter, when they perceive their myth-based, narcissistic, crypto-lesbian agenda under attack. I can see why humane, liberal advocates such as Fox-Genovese would raise their hackles.
- jm_rice
January 5, 2007 at 1:43pm
As noted by Adam Kusher on our sister blog, "Over the weekend, we posted two articles by frequent TNR contributors who died last week: a 1949 article by eminent sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset about the difficulty of analyzing social class and status, and a 1979 article by historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, on the place of women in history."
(Go to that post for the links; the comments software won't accept them here.) Highly recommended. JTL
- openu
January 8, 2007 at 11:13am