Everyday Utopia

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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 capitalism's backup plan.It didn't have to be this way. Men and women have long dreamed of societies that reimagined the role of the family, liberating women from the full responsibility of childrearing and domestic work by creating new collective ideals of friendship, love, and mutual aid. In the wake of the French Revolution, utopian feminists began conjuring a future society where love and marriage ceased to be governed primarily by economic considerations and where society as a whole supported the work of raising the next generation. By questioning the persistence of the nuclear family, these utopian thinkers also challenged the social institution primarily responsible for the transfer of wealth and privilege from one generation to the next.Moments of great upheaval are often periods of great transformation, golden hours, as we ask ourselves how we might do life differently. Equal parts conversational and intellectually rigorous, EVERYDAY UTOPIA FOR WOMEN (And the Rest of Us) unearths the history of utopian feminist ideas from well-known figures like Plato and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to lesser-known names such as Flora Tristan and Alexandra Kollantai to provide us with valuable blueprints of imagination extending from the home to the wider social and political sphere.