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Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies

Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. By Edward D. Berkowitz (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 283...
Journal of Social History, 09/22/09 by Ruth Rosen · More from publication
Old women in the cold.(Comment)

My 91-year-old friend Alice, like many elderly women, has outlived her modest savings. All that stands between her and destitution is the $800...
Nation, The, 04/11/05 by Rosen, Ruth · More from publication
When despair trumps hope

Hanadi Jaradat, a 27-year-old Palestinian apprentice lawyer, once dreamed of having a career and children. Instead, she joined the Islamic Jihad,...
Catholic New Times, 11/16/03 by Ruth Rosen · More from publication
Welcome to my world.(interview with social activist Merk Hoffman)(Interview)

Anthrax attacks, real and faked, fill the news headlines. Suddenly "we" are told to fear mayhem, in the mail, in the sky or anywhere in between....
Women's Review of Books, The, 12/01/01 by Flanders, Laura; Rosen, Ruth · More from publication
When Women Spied on Women : THE FBI PAID DOZENS OF INFORMANTS TO INFILTRATE THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT.

The year is 1969. In a living room, ten women passionately tell one another secrets they have never before revealed. One woman describes the...
Nation, The, 09/04/00 by ROSEN, RUTH · More from publication
A house is not a home.(Review)

A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics by Jo Freeman. New York: Routledge, 2000, 368 pp., $35.00 hardcover. I still remember...
Women's Review of Books, The, 07/01/00 by Rosen, Ruth · More from publication

The longest revolution.

"IF ANYTHING REMAINS more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women," wrote Harvard sociologist David Riesman in Time magazine on July 21,...
Women's Review of Books, The, 02/01/00 by Rosen, Ruth · More from publication
Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women's Movement.

Preparing to attend a conference in New Zealand a couple of years ago, I immersed myself in that nation's history. When I read that New Zealand...
Women's Review of Books, The, 06/01/98 by Rosen, Ruth · More from publication