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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

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

User Review  - Jonathan - Goodreads

Full of detail but deeply flawed. Rosen embraces a single-track concept of progress and evidently cannot fathom other models of social reform or regeneration. To be sure, she does depict the ... Read full review

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