A 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 VAROUFAKISHistory is made by the dreamers ... A mustread THOMAS PIKETTYThe 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 doesnt seem to make us very happy.And yet throughout history and around the world today, forwardthinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living from the allfemale 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 presentday 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...

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