DETROIT, May 2, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- On Thursday, May 19, 2005, Marygrove College welcomes Dr. Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA), and Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, for an open discussion of "Courting Disaster? The World Revolution in Family Life and the Problems with 'Promoting Marriage.'"
Beginning at 7:00 p.m. in The Theater on Marygrove's campus at 8425 W. McNichols in Detroit, Dr. Coontz will challenge the current movement of governmental involvement in advocating marriage, among other family-oriented topics. She will sign her newest book, Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage, following the presentation. Dr. Coontz' new book was reviewed in the Outlook section of the Sunday, May 1st, Washington Post. The May issue of Psychology Today will have a cover story on the book and the May Psychotherapy Networker features an article authored by her.
A former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she has received the Dale Richmond Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for "outstanding contributions to the field of child development," and the Washington Governors' Writers Award.
Dr. Coontz has published six books on family history, gender roles, and contemporary family issues, including The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families, and American Families: A Multicultural Reader.
She has been called "brilliant and invariably provocative" by the New York Time Book Review and "a treasure" by the Los Angeles Times. Her articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Modern Maturity, Vogue, Newsweek, LIFE, Time-LIFE Books, and Mirabella, as well as in such academic journals as the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Forum, and the Journal of Marriage and the Family. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN's Crossfire, Leeza, Fox on the Family, and CBS This Morning, and has been featured in documentaries hosted by Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters.
The May 19th discussion forum with Dr. Stephanie Coontz, hosted by the Marygrove Department of Social Sciences, is free and open to the public.