About the Author

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007) was Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Emory Universi

Reviews

Fox-Genovese has written a courageous, clear-sighted book that feminists will have to reckon with for a long time to come."New Republic"

Fox-Genovese is at her best as a cultural critic, offering valuable commentaries on feminism and cultural trends in our society.Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton

This is a refreshing and highly readable text.Jean Bethke Elshtain, Vanderbilt University

"Fox-Genovese has written a courageous, clear-sighted book that feminists will have to reckon with for a long time to come."New Republic""

"Fox-Genovese is at her best as a cultural critic, offering valuable commentaries on feminism and cultural trends in our society.Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton"

"This is a refreshing and highly readable text.Jean Bethke Elshtain, Vanderbilt University"

Fox-Genovese has written a courageous, clear-sighted book that feminists will have to reckon with for a long time to come.

"New Republic"

Fox-Genovese is at her best as a cultural critic, offering valuable commentaries on feminism and cultural trends in our society.

Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton

This is a refreshing and highly readable text.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Vanderbilt University

"Fox-Genovese has written a courageous, clear-sighted book that feminists will have to reckon with for a long time to come.

"New Republic""

"Fox-Genovese is at her best as a cultural critic, offering valuable commentaries on feminism and cultural trends in our society.

Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton"

"This is a refreshing and highly readable text.

Jean Bethke Elshtain, Vanderbilt University"

In this densely written but repetitive volume, historian Fox-Genovese challenges the Western legacy of individualism, which neither encompasses both male and female nor allows for the context of class and race. Arguing for a new attention to community and common culture, Fox-Genovese views postmodernist/poststructuralist scholars as guilty of unbridled individualism as the most doctrinare devotees of ``Great Man History.'' Although many of her ideas are provocative and her topics timely (pornography, abortion rights, comparable worth, teaching the canon), her book's redundancy and lack of focus too readily reflect its origins; portions of seven of the nine chapters previously appeared as periodical articles. More seriously, the book (which its publishers predict will prove controversial) is so afflicted with academese as to discourage all but the most dedicated reader. For university women's studies collections only.-- Beverly Miller, Boise State Univ. Lib., Id.