The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed AmericaIn 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. |
Contents
| 2008 | |
| 1930 | |
REBIRTH OF FEMINISM | 1967 |
THROUGH THE EYES OF WOMEN | |
NO END IN SIGHT | |
Gender Matters in the New Century | |
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The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America ... Ruth Rosen Limited preview - 2006 |
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