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OPEN UNIVERSITY JANUARY 4, 2007

In Memoriam

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

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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

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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

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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

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