Stephanie Coontz





Stephanie Coontz

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Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-04. Coontz is the author of "A Strange Stirring": The Feminine Mystique and the Wives of "The Greatest Generation" (Basic Books, forthcoming 2010) and the award-winning Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage(Viking Press, 2005). She also wrote The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (1992 and 2000, Basic Books), The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families (Basic Books, 1997), and The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families . She edited...more


Average rating: 3.86 · 1,339 ratings · 240 reviews · 9 distinct works
Marriage, a History: How Lo...
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The Way We Never Were: Amer...
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A Strange Stirring: The Fem...
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The Way We Really Are: Comi...
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American Families: A Multic...
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The Social Origins of Priva...
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Life in Capitalist America
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“College graduates and women with higher earnings are now more likely to marry than women with less education and lower wages, although they generally marry at an older age. The legal profession is one big exception to this generalization. Female attorneys are less likely to ever marry, to have children, or to remarry after divorce than women in other professions. But an even higher proportion of male attorneys are childless, suggesting there might be something about this career that is unfriendly to everyone’s family life, not just women’s.”
Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in the same time and place.”
Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap

“Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.”
Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families & the Nostalgia Trap



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