Courtesy of stephaniecoontz.com
Stephanie Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She serves as Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-profit, nonpartisan association of family researchers and practitioners based at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She is also the author of several books, including Marriage, a History, The Way We Never Were, The Way We Really Are, and most recently A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.
Stephanie recently had a conversation with us about marriage, love, community, and how our definitions of each have changed through time:
