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Everyday utopia : what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life / Kristen R. Ghodsee.
"A spirited tour through 2,500 years of utopian thinking and experiments to tease out better ways of imagining our domestic lives - from childrearing and housing to gender roles and private property - and a look at the communities putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982190217 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | To boldly know where no one has known before: how blue sky thinking can set us free -- Home is where the walls are: thinking outside the single-family box -- Kids as public goods: why the privatization of childhood is bad for families -- The good school: educating the next generation of social dreamers -- Imagine no possessions, I wonder why we can't: how sharing our things can open our hearts -- Shall I compare thee to a violent ape?: why our families are nuclear -- You and me and baby makes misery: expanding our networks of love and care -- The Star Trek game plan: how radical hope defeats dystopian despair. |
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| Subject: | Communal living > History. Utopian socialism > History. Utopias > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 335.02 Gho | 31681010324085 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Kristen R. Ghodsee is a professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the critically acclaimed author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, which has been translated into fifteen languages. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other outlets, and sheâs appeared on PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPRâs Throughline, Voxâs The Gray Area, and The Ezra Klein Show. She lives outside Philadelphia.
