Quotation by Stephanie Coontz

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Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

Stephanie Coontz

Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944), U.S. social historian. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B2 (October 21, 1992).

A scholar specializing in the subject of the American family, Coontz was reacting to inaccuracies and distortions in the conservative political emphasis on "family values."

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