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

Rosen, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0670814628 / ISBN 13: 9780670814626

Published by Viking Adult, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670814628
• ISBN 13: 9780670814626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The role of the women's movement in transforming American society is explored fully in this colorful chronicle of a social revolution, weaving together years of research and dozens of interviews to cover events from the publication of the The Feminine Mystique in 196s to the present. Original.

About the Author

Historian and journalist Ruth Rosen is Professor of History at the University of California at Davis. Editor of the highly acclaimed Maime Papers and author of the classic work The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, she also writes regularly for Dissent and The Women's Review of Books. Her frequent op-ed columns appear in The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.