Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-312) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Everyday utopia

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kristen R. Ghodsee

Sub title

what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life

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

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adult

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What two thousand years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life

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