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Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home.`A must-read¿ THOMAS PIKETTY`Just wonderful¿ ANGELA SAINIThroughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living together, sharing property and raising children. In Everyday Utopia, anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee explores what we can lea...

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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"--

Ob Care-Arbeit, Erziehung oder Bildung: Viele Bereiche unseres Alltags sind ungerecht organisiert - zumeist tragen Frauen die Hauptlast. Sie sollen sich um die Kinder kümmern, den Haushalt besorgen, die kranke Verwandtschaft pflegen und ihre ökonomische Unabhängigkeit doch gefälligst für ein Leben in der Kleinfamilie aufgeben.Im Laufe der Geschichte haben Philosophen, Aktivistinnen und Pioniere nach alternativen Lebensformen gesucht: von den r...

For fans of UTOPIA FOR REALISTS and HOW TO DO NOTHING, EVERYDAY UTOPIA FOR WOMEN (And the Rest of Us) unearths our lost feminist utopias and inspires us to reimagine private and public life.As the coronavirus pandemic has made abundantly clear, our way of life has been propped up and subsidized by the unpaid or underpaid labor of women in the home. This is nothing new. As feminists have been warning us for decades: the nuclear family is capita...

Everyday Utopia presents an uplifting tour of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, as pioneered by experimental communities throughout the world and across history.The traditional 'nuclear' family home can be a challenging place, but the problem is bigger than that: as a way of organising daily life, it places unfair and unnecessary burdens on women (and men too), it entrenches inequalities, entraps us ...

A dazzling tour through 2, 000 years of audacious utopian thinking and experiments, exploring better ways to arrange our daily lives, plus a globetrotting jaunt to the communities already putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today.In the 6th century BCE, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras?a man remembered today more for his theorem about right-angled triangles than for his progressive politics?founded a commune in a seaside vil...

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Why the most radical feminists were also communists

After the Cold War ended, more than 400 million people found themselves in the transition from state socialism and central planning to liberal democracy (in most cases) and free markets. Residents' evaluations of the transition are sharply divided, echoing the contradictory images presented by different social science disciplines. Taking Stock of the Shock presents an interdisciplinary view of the transition process. Kristen Ghodsee and Mitche...

After the Cold War ended, more than 400 million people found themselves in the transition from state socialism and central planning to liberal democracy (in most cases) and free markets. Residents' evaluations of the transition are sharply divided, echoing the contradictory images presented by different social science disciplines. Taking Stock of the Shock presents an interdisciplinary view of the transition process. Kristen Ghodsee and Mitche...

A spirited, witty, deeply researched exploration of why socialism, when done right, can lead to economic independence, better work-life balance, and, yes, even better sex.

Im August 2017 sorgte ein Beitrag von Kristen R. Ghodsee in der New York Times für Furore. Der Titel: Warum Frauen im Sozialismus besseren Sex hatten. Bei »Sozialismus« mögen viele an alte Männer in grauen Anzügen denken. Tatsächlich aber garantierten zahlreiche sozialistische Länder ihren Bürgerinnen durch die Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt, Lohngleichheit und eine aktive Sozial- und Familienpolitik ein hohes Maß an ökonomischer Unabhängigke...

Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy BuchananUnregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex. If you like the idea of such outcomes, then come along for an exploration of how we might change things.(If you don't give a whit about women's lives because you're a gynophobic right-wing ...

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Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of eight books, including Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence.

Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of eight books, including Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism, also published by Duke University Press, and most recently, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence.

Ethnography is a qualitative method that focuses on the culture of everyday life and examines the diversity of worldviews that shape the social politics of local communities, making the world safe for human differences. In recent years, the ethnographic method has spread from its origins in cultural anthropology and sociology to a variety of academic disciplines and even to the business world and the military. In this guidebook, Kristen Ghodse...

Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences in Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communist past