Stephanie Coontz

Lessons We Learned From Mad Men

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Worklife Balance, Workplace | Tagged David Weigand, Gender Roles, New Male Mystique, Stephanie Coontz, Sexism, Tv, Work-Life Balance, Undecided: How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find a Career -- and Life -- That Works for You, The Great Gatsby, Feminism, Facebook, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Women News

Mad Men doesn't pretend that these "career girls" are empowered: These gals are as hemmed in by the intractability of the system as they are by their rigid underwear.

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Women and Work: How Goes the Revolution?

Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: W, Megan Basham, Jack Welch, Stephanie Coontz, Claudia Goldin, The Quiet Revolution, Millennials, Carrie Lukas, New York Times Sunday Review, Catalyst, Wall Street Journal, Women News

In 30 years, women are settled in everywhere from the CEO's office to the Supreme Court to the battlefield to earth orbit. The term "first woman" that signified every breakthrough has lost its news value. There is just not that much of note to break through these days. With one exception.

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Do We Really Know What Love Is?

Vicki Larson | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Marriage, Singles, Divorce, Love, Relationships, Stephanie Coontz, Intimacy, Love and Marriage, Long Marriage, Happy Marriage, After the Wedding, Weddings News

Many of us are stumped to define love, and even those of us who can define it often find that others may not agree with our definition. Yet we all have an idea of what love is.

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Why You Shouldn't Marry For Love

Vicki Larson | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Marriage Proposal, Marriage, Divorce, Love, Stephanie Coontz, Infidelity, Dean McDermott, Tori Spelling, Weddings News

Sometimes, after x-number of years of marriage, we just don't love our spouse as much as we used to -- if we still love him or her at all, that is.

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How Reconciling Fathering With Feminism Just Got More Complicated

Andrea Doucet, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Rhana Reiko Rizzuto, Fathering, Sara Ruddick, Kathleen Gerson, Ellen Galinsky, Stephanie Coontz, Mothering, The Good Men Project, Catherine Elgin, Feminism, Joan Williams, Gender, Parenting, Parents-Dads, Healthy Living News

The fit between feminism and fathering has become a taken-for-granted part of my work and my life. But I was recently forced to rethink this combination as I followed a debate between men's rights activists (MRAs) and their critics.

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WATCH: Men Happiest When Given Little Criticism And Lots Of Sex

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Author Stephanie Coontz, Stephen Colbert, Colbert Author Interview, Betty Friedan, A Strange Stirring, Colbert Report, The Feminine Mystique, Stephanie Coontz, Books News

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed author Stephanie Coontz about her new book "A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at th...

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Does Marriage Really Make A Difference In A Relationship?

Cristen Conger | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Healthy Relationships, Relationships, Cohabitation, Happy Marriages, Stephanie Coontz, Dating, Living Together, Happiness, Healthy Living News

Do unmarried, cohabitating couples derive just as many mental, physical and social benefits from their relationships? To sum up the 60-page study: Yes.

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Stirring Up The Feminine Mystique For A New Generation

Christine Whelan | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Women's Empowerment, Betty Friedan Feminism, Marriage, Betty Friedan, Books, The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, Stephanie Coontz, Masculinity, A Strange Stirring, The Feminine Mystique, Feminism, Gender, Healthy Living News

I am a professor of sociology teaching classes on gender and social change -- and I have never read Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." It turns out that very few of my well-educated, feminist-leaning friends have either.

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Study: Older, Unmarried, Educated Moms On Rise

AP | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Center for Health Statistics, Council on Contemporary Families, Pew Research Study Motherhood, Stephanie Coontz, Motherhood Study, The New Demography of American Motherhood, D'Vera Cohn, u.s. Census Bureau, Rise of Single Mother, Older Better-Educated Mothers, Fertility Treatment, Study: Older, Unmarried, Educated Moms on Rise, College News

New mothers in the U.S. are increasingly older and better educated than they were two decades ago, according to a study on the state of American mothe...

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A Champagne Toast to the 50 percent Who Stay Married

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Romantic Love, Marriage, Adultery, Medieval, Divorce, Stephanie Coontz, Up, Love, Australian National University, August, Separation, National Center for Health, Healthy Living News

Here's a toast to those couples who got married this month and to those in the 50 percent that have stayed married.

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Omnigamy, anyone?

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Omnigamy, Polygamy, Samuel Delaney, Medieval, Human Sexuality, Stephanie Coontz, Polygamists, Bigamy, Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Evan Wolfson, Abraham Lincoln, Animal Sexuality, Bestiality, Love, Gay Marriage, Andrew Cherlin, Charlemagne, Healthy Living News

Stop debating whether or not gay marriage will open the door to polygamy and bestiality, and understand that marriage is an ever-changing arrangement to meet individual, social, cultural, and religious needs.

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Married, Sleeping Solo?

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Marriage, Health, Sex, Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Sleep, Couples, Stephanie Coontz, Marrage: A History, Council of Contemporary Families, Healthy Living News

How many couples who sleep solo trade a less-than-perfect sex life for better sleep?

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