Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh,1970-author.
Everyday utopia :what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life /Kristen R. Ghodsee.xvi, 334 pages :illustrations ;24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.
1.Communal living--History.2.Utopian socialism--History.3.Utopias--History.Dynamic Details