Stephanie Coontz

Historian Stephanie Coontz updates her classic debunking of the history of self-reliance and family structures, myths that still resonate on the campaign trail.

Contrary to what popular culture tells us, traditional marriage was never about love. 

Today, Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique," the book that sparked the feminist movement of the 1960s, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of publication. Stephanie Coontz, author ...

Stephanie Coontz, director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families and the author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, examines the impact and continuing influence of Betty Friedan's seminal book.

Event:  Stephanie Coontz speaks about her book tonight at the Tenement Museum at 6:30pm.  RSVP at the museum website.

Stephanie Coontz, director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families and author of Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage, talks about how having children impacts marriage.