2005: Stephanie Coontz Presents “ Marriage: Past, Present, And Future” At Muhlenberg College

Stephanie Coontz Presents “ Marriage: Past, Present, And Future” At Muhlenberg College

Stephanie Coontz, author, lecturer and educator on family diversity, will deliver the fourth annual Danielle Dionne Guerin Memorial Lecture in Women's Studies at Muhlenberg College on Thursday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Center for the Arts. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow Coontz’s lecture.

Friday, March 11, 2005 10:38 AM

With “Marriage: Past, Present, and Future,” Coontz will preview topics addressed her newest book, “ From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage,” to be published by Viking-Penguin in May 2005.

Coontz is the author of six previous books on family history, gender roles and contemporary family issues, and her writings have been published in Life, The Wall Street Journal, Harper’s, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Modern Maturity and Vogue, among others. She has appeared on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” CNN’s “Crossfire,” “Fox on the Family,” “CBS This Morning” and has been interviewed by Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters.

A professor of history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., Coontz is the national co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families. She is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has received the Dale Richmond Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for outstanding contributions to the field of child development, as well as the Washington Governors’ Writers Award.

Coontz has been called “brilliant and invariably proactive” by the New York Time Book Review and “a treasure” by the Los Angeles Times.

For more information contact:
Jillian Lowery 484-664-3235
Patrice DiQuinzio 484-664-3416