![]() ![]() In a book that fits as well in the casual reader's book case and the undergraduate's back pack as the scholar's reference shelf, Rosen traces the journey Americans have traveled from that world and the story of the women who led them out. Truly, the gendered past is a foreign country. As Rosen points out, the world before feminism is a world young women today find virtually unrecognizable. In a single volume, Rosen has surveyed the history of both liberal and radical feminism to produce an engaging synthetic narrative of the revolutionary changes wrought by feminism and the reaction to them. Reviewed by Jessica Weiss (Department of History, California State University Hayward)įeminism has been declared dead, over, or irrelevant so often, it is a relief to reach for Ruth Rosen's comprehensive history of the modern women's movement when mustering a reply. ![]() The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. ![]()
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