Stephanie Coontz (born August 31, 1944) is an American author, historian,[1][2] and faculty member at Evergreen State College.

She won the Washington Governor's Writers Award in 1989 for her book The Social Origins of Private Life: A History of American Families.

In 1995 she received the Dale Richmond Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics for her "outstanding contributions to the field of child development."

Her newest book, about the wives and daughters of "The Greatest Generation," is A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s.

She has testified about her research before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families and addressed audiences across America, Europe, and Japan.