''The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America'' (2000, revised edition 2006
) is a book by American
feminist
Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...
historian
Ruth Rosen that reviews the women's rights movement in the United States during the second half of the 20th century. Rosen discusses the way that the media framed the feminist movement and the reaction in society as women gained more influence.
References
External links
C-SPAN Video Library ''The World Split Open''
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2000 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
English-language non-fiction books
Feminist books
History books about the United States
History of women in the United States
Women's rights in the United States