Stephanie Coontz is Director of Research and Public Education of the Council on Contemporary Families. Dr. Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She is the author of 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 Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (new edition, Basic Books, 2000), 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.