Stephanie Coontz

Stephanie Coontz taught history and family studies at Evergreen State College. She is the director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families and authored A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s in 2011. Her earlier books focus on the history of the U.S. family: Marriage, A History; The Way We Really Are; The Way We Never Were; and The Social Origins of Private Life.

Interrogating the Feminine Mystique
Against the Current, No. 151, March/April 2011

Marriage Demystified
Against the Current, No. 127, March/April 2007

The Family As It Really Is
Against the Current, No. 73, March/April 1998

Gender and the Communist Manifesto
Against the Current, No. 72, January/February 1998

Family Values?
Against the Current, No. 43, March/April 1993

"Family Values--For Real?
Against the Current, No. 41, November/December 1992

Family Policy--A Brief Rejoinder
Against the Current, No. 23, November/December 1989

The Pitfalls of "Family Policy"
Against the Current No. 22, September/October 1989