ATLANTA, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a historian who turned from feminism to conservatism, has died in Atlanta at 65 of complications from an October surgery.
Emory University, where Fox-Genovese had taught since 1986, announced the historian died Jan. 2, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
Fox-Genovese founded the journal Marxist Perspectives with her husband, historian Eugene Genovese, in the late 1970s. The pair became known as "radicalism's royal couple."
However, Fox-Genovese, who founded the Institute for Women's Studies at Emory, began to voice more conservative opinions on abortion and women in the workplace during the 1990s. Two books authored during that decade, "Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism" (1991) and "Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life" (1996), documented her transformation from left-leaning feminist to conservative thinker.
The historian, who converted to Catholicism during her later years, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George Bush in 2003 for her work as a "defender of reason and servant of faith."
She is survived by her husband, a brother and a sister.
