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OverviewA practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, from the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism. 'Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era' YANIS VAROUFAKIS 'History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY --- The traditional 'nuclear' family home is a problem: it places unfair and unnecessary burdens on women (and men too), it entrenches inequalities, it entraps us financially and it hinders certain kinds of child development. Also, it doesn't seem to make us very happy. And yet throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living - from the all-female 'beguinages' of medieval Belgium to the matriarchal ecovillages of contemporary Colombia; from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras, where men and women lived as equals and shared property, to present-day Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra 'alloparents' to help raise children not their own. Some of these experiments burned brightly and briefly; others are living proof of what is possible. Everyday Utopia upends our assumptions and raises our sights by gathering these and many more inspiring examples together, arguing that many of the most important and effective ways of changing our lives and the world are to be found in the home. The result is a radically hopeful and practical vision of more connected - and contented - ways of living. 'Liberating and inspirational, a sweeping feminist history of society at its most creative' ADA CALHOUN, author of Why We Can't Sleep Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kristen GhodseePublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.430kg ISBN: 9781847927187ISBN 10: 1847927181 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 18 May 2023 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsFunny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution * Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * Wonderful ... Kristen Ghodsee doesn't wear rose-tinted spectacles ... but she seeks with great brio and nuance to lay out what some socialist states achieved for women ... That Ghodsee also makes this a joyous read is the cherry on the cake * Suzanne Moore, Observer, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * Ghodsee's book could not have been published at a better moment ... There are many reasons to revisit socialist policies in a time of widening inequality, but a feminist perspective offers some of the most powerful incentives * Emily Witt, Guardian, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * Brilliant ... engaging ... Ghodsee is not naive [and] brings the necessary scepticism to her thesis [which] comes into sharp focus when she looks at what happened after the Wall fell ... [a] valuable record of how things were and how they could be * Rosie Boycott, Financial Times, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * Capitalism's triumph is a calamity for most women. Kristen Ghodsee's incisive book brilliantly reveals their plight * Yanis Varoufakis, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * Utopia is back! And it ought to be taken seriously, as history is made by the dreamers. If you want to open up new futures for our private lives, please have a look at this refreshing book. A must-read -- THOMAS PIKETTY Having explained to us Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism, Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can, and ought to, be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era -- YANIS VAROUFAKIS More could be possible than we imagine - that's the liberating and inspirational message of Kristen Ghodsee's sweeping feminist history of society at its most creative -- ADA CALHOUN, author of Why We Can't Sleep Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution * Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * Wonderful ... Kristen Ghodsee doesn't wear rose-tinted spectacles ... but she seeks with great brio and nuance to lay out what some socialist states achieved for women ... That Ghodsee also makes this a joyous read is the cherry on the cake * Suzanne Moore, Observer, on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism * History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read -- THOMAS PIKETTY Utopia can and ought to be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era -- YANIS VAROUFAKIS Liberating and inspirational ... Kristen Ghodsee's sweeping feminist history of society at its most creative -- ADA CALHOUN, author of Why We Can't Sleep Brilliant ... engaging ... Ghodsee is not naive [and] brings the necessary scepticism to her thesis [which] comes into sharp focus when she looks at what happened after the Wall fell ... [a] valuable record of how things were and how they could be -- ROSIE BOYCOTT on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution -- DAISY BUCHANAN on Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read -- THOMAS PIKETTY, author of A Brief History of Equality Just wonderful -- ANGELA SAINI, author of The Patriarchs This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living – systems that actually work -- ROBERT WALDINGER, author of The Good Life and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one -- REBECCA TRAISTER, author of Good and Mad Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era -- YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism Author InformationWhen the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Kristen R. Ghodsee was travelling in Europe, and spent the summer of 1990 witnessing first-hand the initial hope and euphoria that followed the sudden and unexpected collapse of state socialism in the former Eastern Bloc. The political and economic chaos that followed inspired Ghodsee to pursue an academic career studying this upheaval, focusing on how ordinary people's lives - and women's particularly - changed when state socialism gave way to capitalism. For the last two decades, she has visited the region regularly and lived for over three years in Bulgaria and the Eastern parts of reunified Germany. Now a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she has won many awards for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has written six books on gender, socialism, and postsocialism, examining the everyday experiences of upheaval and displacement that continue to haunt the region to this day. Ghodsee also writes on women's issues for the Chronicle of Higher Education and is the co-author of Professor Mommy- Finding Work/Family Balance in Academia. Her articles and essays have appeared in publications such as Eurozine, Aeon, Dissent, Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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