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).
New Articles by Stephanie Coontz
- Stop Blaming Betty Friedan Slate, May 5, 2010
- Why Gore breakup touched a nerve CNN, June 4, 2010
- Divorce, No-Fault Style The New York Times, June 16, 2010
Interviews
- Men and Marriage C-SPAN Video, October 19, 2009
- 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 2010
- Keynote Speaker, CUWFA Conference: "The Feminine Mystique, the Masculine Mystique, and the Career Mystique"
When: May 6, 2010, 9 a.m.
Location:Harvard Faculty Club
- Keynote Speaker, Harvard's Dual Career Symposium: "The Dual-Career Marriage in Historical Perspective"
When: May 5, 2010, 12 p.m.
Location: Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA
- Opening Plenary, "For Better AND Worse" Council on Contemporary Families Annual Conference
When: April 16, 2010
Location: Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois
www.contemporaryfamilies.org
- Keynote Speaker, National Marriage Enrichment Conference
When: March 19, 2010, 7:45 a.m.
Location: Diocese of Saskatoon
- Visiting scholar, Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program
When: March 10-13, 2010
Location: University of Oklahoma, Norman
- Workshop: How to Engage the Media with your Research
presented by Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Department of Sociology
When: January 21, 2010,
11:00-1:30 pm
Location: Rice University, Houston Texas
Coontz is available for lectures and other speaking engagements through the Jodi Solomon Speakers Bureau: jodi@jodisolomon.biz or visit www.jodisolomonspeakers.com. Professional organizations can reach her directly at: coontzs@evergreen.edu.
New and Recent Books by Stephanie Coontz!
Stephanie Coontz's work, Marriage, A History , was named one of the best books of 2005 by The Washington Post . Please visit the Marriage, A History page on this website for more information about this title, including availability.Coontz recently published an expanded version of American Families: A Multicultural Reader, edited with two of her former students .
And watch for her new release, to be published fall 2010 by Basic Books: 'A Strange Stirring': The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s .
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