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

Author/creator Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970-
Format Electronic
EditionFirst Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Descriptionxvi, 334 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects

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 -- Utopia U: Educating the Next Generation of Social Dreamers -- Imagine No Possessions, I Wonder Why We Can't: How Sharing Can Save the Planet -- Shall I Compare Thee to a Violent Ape: The Origins of the Nuclear Family -- You and Me and Baby Makes Misery: Outgrowing the Nuclear Family -- The Star Trek Game Plan: How Radical Hope Defeats Dystopian Despair.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2022027753
ISBN9781982190217 (hardcover)
ISBN(ebook)

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