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Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - David Bates - Goodreads

In The World Split Open Ruth Rosen provides an overview of second wave feminism from the early sixties to the nineteen eighties, charting the rise of the Women's Movement and its impact on American ... Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present ... Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Jela - Goodreads

The World Spilt Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed American, written by Professor of history at UC Berkeley, celebrated journalist and feminist, Ruth Rosen is not only a thoroughly ... Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Kb - Goodreads

Excellent introduction to the women's movement and its diverse components. So much to take away, but most interesting to me is the failure of male-dominated organizing groups to realize their hypocrisy in how they treated women. Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Jessica - Goodreads

Ended up not using this in a class, just found it on the shelf. should read it soon, or at least refer to it. Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Paul - Goodreads

Very comprehensive and thoughtful look at the full array of second-wave feminism. Includes everything from working-class women's activism in the Midwest to very personal discussions about how much sex and romance changed (and didn't change) in the post-war period. Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Alessandra - Goodreads

“ARMED AND DANGEROUS-EXTREME” is just one of many accusations lodged at the women's movement of the later 20th century (243). The unearthed FBI files Ruth Rosen cited above recall a legacy of the ... Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Gibbs - Goodreads

WEll-constructed history of women's lib, but really temporally and culturally bounded. Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Joy H. - Goodreads

RE: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen Added 3/18/10. READ A SAMPLE HERE: https://play.google.com/books/reader?... I first heard about this book at our ... Read full review

Review: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

User Review  - Adam - Goodreads

Key quote: "Nonetheless, the growing New Right and social critics like Christopher Lasch blamed feminism - not consumer culture - for the loss of 'traditional values' and the unraveling of the family ... Read full review

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