I believe that Stephanie Coontz's gender does, indeed, affect the way she approaches her material. It seems as though she adresses her audience from a slant or persoanl bias. Her use of facts and statistics seem critically chosen to support this personal view. Many subsections of the chapters we've read and discussed thus far focus on women's experiences. She emphasizes women's roles during the Victorian period, employment opportunities for women, women's content or lack thereof in typical mommie roles, and a myriad of other engendered concepts. Whether or not this puts a dent in her credibility or strenghthens her argument, I am not sure. I continue to read, however, with a heightened awareness of the author's perspective.