World Split Open How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America: Revised and Updated with a NewE Pilogue

Name: World Split Open How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America: Revised and Updated with a NewE Pilogue
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ISBN: 9780140097191

ISBN-10: 0140097198

ISBN-13: 9780140097191

Edition: 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Ruth Rosen

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The Newly Revised and Updated Edition 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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.43" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface: The Longest Revolution


Chronology



Refugees from the Fifties



Dawn of Discontent



Female Generation Gap



Rebirth of Feminism



Limits of Liberalism



Leaving the Left



Through the Eyes of Women



Hidden Injuries of Sex



Passion and Politics



The Politics of Paranoia



No End in Sight



The Proliferation of Feminism



Sisterhood to Superwoman


Epilogue: Beyond Backlash


Notes


Acknowledgments


Interviews Not Cited in Notes and Archival Collections


Bibliography for Further Reading and Research


Index