The World Split Open, Rosen’s first-rate survey of the origins, impact, and aftershocks of the second wave of American feminism, reminds us, in elegant and affecting prose, of how far we have come and how far we have yet to go.Īn early women’s movement activist and author of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918, Rosen synthesizes for a broad audience existing scholarship on the origins of the women’s movement. Her students were utterly unaware that there ever was a time when a married woman could not get credit without her husband’s signature or that newspapers ran separate help wanted ads for men (doctor, lawyer, accountant, chief) and for women (secretary, nurse, and filing clerk). What do young women and men know about how gender worked in the world before the modern women’s movement? Virtually nothing, history professor Ruth Rosen discovered. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen, Viking, $34.95
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