Rosen has mined the usual sources for historians, but she also spent years interviewing the early activists to bring us a living history of what they did, what they were thinking at the time, and what happened to them in the end. These were the women, she writes, who looked at their lives as if women mattered. Most of her focus is on the lives of the women who launched the National Organization for Women and the consciousness-raising groups and health collectives formed in the '70s, the decade when the movement gathered the steam that ultimately transformed America. The World Split Open is by Ruth Rosen, a professor of history at the University of California, Davis, who was an activist in the early days of the movement. Though these two books tell different stories, both are full of splendid reporting and writing, and they are both about women with guts. But the women who started the movement in the '60s and '70s paid a huge price for their success. The women's liberation movement has been the greatest and most far-reaching revolution of our time, affecting men and women around the world and altering every social institution. Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a Changing America How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
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