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The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America Paperback - 2006
by Ruth Rosen
In this narrative, Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in the era's most far-reaching social evolution. photos.
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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. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolution. Rosen's fresh look at the recent past reveals fascinating but little-known information including how the FBI hired hundreds of women to infiltrate the movement. Using extensive archival research and interviews, Rosen challenges readers to understand the impact of the women's movement and to see why the revolution is far from over.
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. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolution. Rosen's fresh look at the recent past reveals fascinating but little-known information including how the FBI hired hundreds of women to infiltrate the movement. Using extensive archival research and interviews, Rosen challenges readers to understand the impact of the women's movement and to see why the revolution is far from over.
First line
"Until I was twenty-eight," wrote the poet Anne Sexton, "I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies.
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- Title The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
- Author Ruth Rosen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2006-12-26
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780140097191 / 0140097198
- Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
- Dimensions 8.45 x 5.54 x 1.19 in (21.46 x 14.07 x 3.02 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Feminism - United States - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99054439
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.420
Media reviews
"People who decry and fear women's liberation should read [this book]. The experience will provide them with a factual underpinning for what women were, and still are, up against." --The Washington Post
"A first-rate history of contemporary feminism....[Rosen's] account of the past 50 years is comprehensive and detailed, erudite and personal, suitable for the night table as well as the academy." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A first-rate history of contemporary feminism....[Rosen's] account of the past 50 years is comprehensive and detailed, erudite and personal, suitable for the night table as well as the academy." --San Francisco Chronicle
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