Everyday utopia : what 2,000 years of wild experiments can teach us about the good life
A dazzling tour through 2,000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today. In EVERYDAY UTOPIA, fascinatingly feminist thinker Kristen R. Ghodsee whisks you away on a tour through history and around the world to explore those places that have boldly dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives: from the Danish cohousing communities that share chores and deepen neighborly bonds to matriarchal Colombian ecovillages where residents grow all their own food; and from Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra “alloparents” to help raise children not their own, to China, where planned microdistricts ensure everything a busy household might need is nearby.
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- ISBN: 9781982190217
- Physical Description xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2023.
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| 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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Table of Contents
Everyday Utopia : What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us about the Good Life
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Author's Note | xi | |
| 1 | To Boldly Know Where No One Has Known Before: How Blue Sky Thinking Can Set Us Free | 1 |
| 2 | Home Is Where the Walls Are: Thinking Outside the Single-Family Box | 29 |
| 3 | Kids as Public Goods: Why the Privatization of Childhood Is Bad for Families | 69 |
| 4 | The Good School: Educating the Next Generation of Social Dreamers | 103 |
| 5 | Imagine No Possessions, I Wonder Why We Can't: ' Mow Sharing Our Things Can Open Our Hearts | 135 |
| 6 | Shall I Compare Thee to a Violent Ape?: Why Our Families Are Nuclear | 171 |
| 7 | You and Me and Baby Makes Misery: Expanding Our Networks of Love and Care | 199 |
| 8 | The Star Trek Game Plan: How Radical Hope Defeats Dystopian Despair | 231 |
| Acknowledgments | 263 | |
| Notes | 269 | |
| Selected Suggestions for Further Reading | 303 | |
| List of Figures | 313 | |
| Index | 315 |
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