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Stephanie Coontz

Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families; Professor, The Evergreen State College

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(360) 352-8117
Email:
coontzs@msn.com
Topics of Expertise:
History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / Marriage & Divorce / Work & Family

Stephanie Coontz is Director of Research and Public Education of the Council on Contemporary Families and a member of the CCF Board. She teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She wrote The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (revised edition, Basic Books, 2016), A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (Basic Books, 2011), Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage (Viking, 2005), 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 also edited American Families: A Multicultural Reader (Routledge, 1999) and is a frequent guest columnist for the New York Times.

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News & Publications by Stephanie Coontz

  • CCF’S Stephanie Coontz Interviewed by Legacy Washington
  • CCF’s Stephanie Coontz featured in Rolling Stone
  • CCF’s Stephanie Coontz for The New York Times: What Can Different-Sex Couples Learn From Same-Sex Couples?
  • National Spouses Day Is This Sunday…. Feeling Any Pressure?
  • KEYNOTE ESSAY: No Easy Answers: Can Colleges Define Consent and Reduce Unwanted Sex? || Stephanie Coontz & Paula England
  • CCF’s Stephanie Coontz on Paying Stay-at-Home Parents in The New York Times
  • Dads Count Too: Family-Friendly Policies Must Include Fathers
  • The Seattle Times Profiles CCF’s Own Stephanie Coontz
  • Stephanie Coontz on History of Wedding Traditions in NBC News
  • CCF Experts Weigh in on the “Sex Recession”

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Elizabeth Gershoff

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

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