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Everyday utopia : what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life / Kristen R. Ghodsee.

Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- (author.).

Summary:

"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.