Welcome to Stephanie Coontz's official website!

Here you will find a wealth of information about Coontz's professional work examining and documenting family systems, both those of the past and those of today. Of primary interest are Coontz's multiple books, containing the knowledge she has gathered throughout her career.

Books by Stephanie Coontz:

• Marriage, a History - selected as one of the best books of 2005 by the Washington Post
• The Way We Never Were
• The Way We Really Are
• The Social Origins of Private Life
• American Families, A Multicultural Reader

For a list of recent speaking engagements, refer to Coontz's Curriculum Vita (pdf).

Interviews

• Good Question: How Has Marriage Changed? WCCO-TV, Minneapolis, March 8, 2007
• Psychjourney Podcasts
• Video — Media Appearances Sampler (50MB MPG download)

Lectures and Other Speaking Engagements

• Council on Contemporary Families Annual Confe

When: April 25-26, 2008
Location: University of Illinois at Chicago

• Featured Speaker,
  Annual Conference of the New York State Council on Divorce Mediation.