Marriage & Families

Stephanie Coontz Revisits The Feminine Mystique

Stephanie Coontz makes all the so-called relationship, marriage and family experts from the conservative thinktanks look like the frauds that they are. Her most recent book, Marriage - A History, is a masterpiece of scholarly research made accessible to the general public through great writing.

Today, in a Guardian column, she uses the 45th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to revisit its impact.  Read more…