| Title Statement |
Everyday utopia: what 2,000 years of bold experiments can teach us about the good life / Kristen R. Ghodsee. |
| Author |
Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- |
| Publication |
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,2024.©2023 |
| Edition |
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. |
| Extent of Item |
xvi, 330 pages |
| ISBN |
9781982190224 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number |
pr07478371 |
| General Notes |
Includes reader's guide. |
| Contents |
Preface to the paperback edition --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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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"-- |
| Subjects & Genres |
| By Topic |
Communal living--History |
| Utopian socialism--History |
| Utopias--History |
