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A review essay on books by (1) Susan Brownmiller, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (New York: Dial, 1999); (2) Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America (New York: Viking, 2000); (3) Rosalyn Baxandall & Linda Gordon (Eds), Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement (New York: Basic, 2000); & (4) Dennis A. Deslippe, "Rights, Not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-1980 (Urbana, IL: U Illinois Press, 2000). Susan Brownmiller & Ruth Rosen, each embarking on writing a history of the Second Wave, cover a wide range of the movements & extend their analyses to the early 1980s, with issue-focused discussions. Brownmiller's book is an expanded memoir that takes the reader inside the movement with its conflicting ideas & personalities. Rosen's book is less a memoir & more a history; however, it is difficult to find a strong through-line of argument as the stories of the movement unfold. Bacandall & Gordon focus with their document collection exclusively on women's liberation. These three books confirm an increasing consensus that a major shift occurred in the movement around 1976. Dennis A. DeSlippe's case studies of labor unions evaluates the impact of rank-&-file working-class women on the issues raised by the women's liberation movement. Moreover, all four books touch on the sticky issues of race & the role of religion. The author concludes that many of these issues will be addressed in local studies that are beginning to appear. E. Sanchez