Everyday Utopia - What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

"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"--

About the author

Kristen R. Ghodsee is a professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the critically acclaimed author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, which has been translated into fifteen languages. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other outlets, and she’s appeared on PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline, Vox’s The Gray Area, and The Ezra Klein Show. She lives outside Philadelphia.

Product details

• Authors: Kristen R Ghodsee, Kristen R. Ghodsee, Kristen R Ghodsee
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781982190217
• ISBN: 978-1-982190-21-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Happiness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Utopias, Self-help & personal development, Political science & theory, Family & relationships, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political science and theory, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues