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Coontz’s free, public talk is “From the Feminine Mystique to the Supermom Syndrome: Women, Work, Marriage and Motherhood from WWII to the Present.”

�������������������� Her lecture will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Floyd Theater, Swain Student Activities Center, with a reception afterward. Coontz’s talk is the annual Minx Auerbach lecture in women’s and gender studies, which UofL’s women’s and gender studies department sponsors during Women’s History Month.

���������������������� Coontz teaches history and family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and is director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families.

���������������������� She wrote “A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of�� the 1960s” and “Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.” Other books include “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 “The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families.”

���������������������� She earned a bachelor’s degree in history from University of California-Berkeley and master’s degree in European history from University of Washington.

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