{{Short description|2000 book}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox book | name = The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America | image = File:The_World_Split_Open.jpg | border = yes | alt = | caption = | author = Ruth Rosen | country = United States | language = English | subjects = | publisher = | pub_date = 2000 | media_type = Print | pages = | isbn = }}
'''''The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America''''' (2000, revised edition 2006<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/02/reviews/000402.002scottt.html|title=The World Split Open|date=April 2, 2000|work=The New York Times|accessdate=June 2, 2010}}</ref>) is a book by American feminist 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.<ref name="New York Times">{{cite web|last=Scott|first=Janny|title=The Feminist Mystique|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/04/02/reviews/000402.002scottt.html|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=9 September 2012|date=April 2, 2000}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/the-world-split-open/102930 Presentation by Rosen on ''The World Split Open'', March 5, 2000], C-SPAN
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