Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

As a grad of Emory in 1983, Ms. Fox-Genovese was a familiar name. In later life, after she established Women’s studies at Emory she became known for her reproach of the feminist movement. Here is a highlight from the New York Times Orbituary:

Ms. Fox-Genovese, who in her early work supported abortion, though with reservations, would in later years equate it with murder. She would also argue publicly that the women’s movement had been disastrous, and extol the virtues of traditional marriage and family.
In interviews and in her writings, Ms. Fox-Genovese ascribed her political transformation in part to her growing embrace of religion. Reared in a household of secular intellectuals, she converted to Roman Catholicism in 1995.

Touchstone Magazine’s Mere Comments provided a good overview of the woman they called. Lioness.

She has told the story of her conversion in an article in the April 2000 issue of First Things (where she also was a contributing editor), and a reading of that account is a necessary starting place for assessing the background to her change. But anyone who followed the track of her published work knows that the change was not nearly as great as it might have seemed. Looking backward at her pilgrimage, one can say that for Betsey, Marxism and feminism, although clearly heresies, were the kind of heresies that point one toward the truth. For like all heresies, they contained an important piece of the truth, a piece that can be built upon once it is freed from association with falsehood.

May the Lioness be at peace with the Lamb.