Through most of history women were not full-time homemakers, and there was no such thing as a male breadwinner. . . . People worked together on farms or small businesses. —Stephanie Coontz
Stephanie Coontz is a faculty member at Evergreen State College where she teaches history and family studies. Books she has written or co-edited include The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, and The Way We Really Are: Coming To Terms With America’s Changing Families. Her work has been featured in many newspapers such as The New York Times, as well as scholarly journals, and she is frequently interviewed on national television and radio. Yaël Ksander hosts.
Amy Bentley is associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She has written the books Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet, and Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. She has written articles on such topics as the politics of southwestern cuisine, a historiography of food riots, and the cultural implications of the Atkins diet. Annie Corrigan hosts.