Stephanie Coontz, the Public Intellectual Role the Academy Forgot, and What Serious History Still Can Do.
The Historian Who Changed How America Thinks About Marriage
Articles
Family Inequality
For Better and Worse brings us up to the present, not just updating of the story she has told for decades, but reflecting the process of continuously studying and learning that should be a model for any scholar working today.
Stephanie Coontz brings it home with For Better and Worse
Los Angeles Times
Why I've come to see nostalgia is a form of "referred pain."
What the marriage and family nostalgia is really about
The New Republic
The appeal of marriage is waning in an age of supercharged misogyny.
Can Marriage Survive the Manosphere?
The Globe and Mail
“There’s no longer a cookie-cutter expectation of what a wedding has to be,” says Coontz, whose new book, For Better and Worse: The Complicated Past and Challenging Future of Marriage, is out in May. Couples are increasingly choosing formats that reflect their own values rather than tradition, she says.
The Atlantic
The calculus of what makes for “happily ever after” has shifted.