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Stephanie Coontz

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in The United States

August 31, 1944

Website

http://www.stephaniecoontz.com

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Parenting & Families, History, Social Sciences

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Stephanie Coontz is director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001 to 2004, and emeritus faculty of history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She has written about gender, family, and history, and her writings have been translated into a dozen languages.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 6,441 ratings · 820 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage 3.97 avg rating — 3,293 ratings — published 2005 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap 3.97 avg rating — 2,246 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s 3.71 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink by Maria Shriver, The Center for American Progress, Olivia Morgan (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families 3.78 avg rating — 148 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women's Work, Men's Property: The Origins of Gender and Class by Stephanie Coontz (Editor), Peta Henderson (Editor), Lila Leibowitz (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families 1600-1900 3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1988 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Families: A Multicultural Reader by Stephanie Coontz (Editor), Maya Parson (Editor), Gabrielle Raley (Editor) 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WHAT SOCIALISTS STAND FOR really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Social History 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“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 and the Nostalgia Trap

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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 (Author), Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

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“The Victorians did not have some secret formula, since lost, about how to expect the best of marriage and still put up with the worst. Rather, they were much more accepting than we are today of a huge gap between rhetoric and reality, expectation and actual experience. In large part, this was because they had no other choice.”
― Stephanie Coontz, Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy

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