Marriage historian Stephanie Coontz says we’re in a tug-of-war with old ideas about partnership. At home, she’s fighting them off too.
America’s Marriage Says We’re in a Tug-of-War With the Past
At home, Stephanie Coontz is fighting old gender scripts just like everyone else.
By
Jessica Bennett,
a contributing writer at New York Magazine
Marriage historian Stephanie Coontz says we’re in a tug-of-war with old ideas about partnership. At home, she’s fighting them off…
The appeal of marriage is waning in an age of supercharged misogyny.
We are no longer following a script just because it’s "tradition."
To find a future for the institution, Stephanie Coontz turns to its wildly varying past.
She’s romanticized by the right and feared by the left. Does she actually exist?
In Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke explores a traditional wife's life in the past
