| Description |
xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Utopian socialism -- History
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Utopias -- History
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Communal living -- History
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Simon and Schuster, Inc., publisher
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| LC no. |
2022027753 |
| ISBN |
9781982190217 hardcover |
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1982190213 hardcover |
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electronic book |
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