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Stephanie Coontz teaches history at the Evergreen State College, in Olympia, Wash., and
is the director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families. Her books include
Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
and
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
.
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