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1 online resource (xv, 339 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"A celebrated historian and women's studies scholar, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese roiled both disciplines with her transition from Marxist-inclined feminist to conservative public intellectual. In the first major biography of this singular and controversial scholar, Deborah Symonds explores Fox-Genovese's enormous personal archive and traces Fox-Genovese's life from a brilliant girl in the World War II era struggling with demanding parents and anorexia to a woman intellectual in the later twentieth century and into the new millennium, providing an illuminating and moving psychological portrait. Never settled, Fox-Genovese was, by turns, a French historian, Marxist feminist, literary critic, southern historian, Red Tory, public intellectual, and conservative Catholic-but still, in her eyes, a feminist. This biography sheds new light on its subject's dynamic and intellectually productive marriage to leftist historian Eugene D. Genovese. In her provocative politics, which confront us still with the complexities of left and right, and her constant search for her place in the world, Fox-Genovese's story resonates more strongly than ever"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface: The Many Betseys -- Prologue: A Life Writer's Unwritten Life -- Part I: Family and Upbringing -- 1. The Family as Matrix: When Elizabeth Ann Was a Car, 1922-1941 -- 2. Fitting the Child to the Childhood: A WASP, Canonical, and Gendered Education, 1941-1963 -- 3. From Fido to Fox-Genovese: Confronting Paternalism's and Anorexia's Sway, 1963-1969 -- Part II: Intellectual Orienteering with Freud and Marx -- 4. The Quiet Voice: Psychoanalysis and Enlightenment, 1969-1976 |
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5. Woman of Letters: Becoming a Marxist Boulevardière, 1976-1983 -- 6. Returning to Ithaca: Becoming a Women's Studies Scholar and Southernist, 1980-1986 -- Part III: Refashionings -- 7. Leaving Home: A Feminist Critic's Move South, 1986-1992 -- 8. Retreating and Regrouping: After the Wall Fell, 1992-1998 -- 9. Right with God: Public Catholic Intellectual and Southern Scholar, 1998-2007 -- Epilogue: A Feminist Manqué -- Notes -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007.
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Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007. |
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Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-2007. |
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Historians -- United States -- Biography.
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Historians. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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Feminists. |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. |
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Feminists. |
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Symonds, Deborah A., 1951- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020. 9780813945132 (DLC) 2021010959 |
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9780813945149 electronic book |
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0813945143 electronic book |
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9780813945132 hardcover |
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0813945135 |
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