Kristen R. Ghodsee is a professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the critically acclaimed author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, which has been translated into fifteen languages. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, and The Washington Post, among other outlets, and she's appeared on PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPR's Throughline, Vox's The Gray Area, and The Ezra Klein Show. She lives outside Philadelphia.
"Scholarly and deeply personal."
--Inside Higher Ed
"This book is about something I love reading about, which is
communes and various experiments in communal living. And [Ghodsee
is] ranging all the way from way back the Neolithic period to
modern eco villages to communes and religious experiments you might
have heard about in the 19th and 20th centuries."
--Ezra Klein, "The Ezra Klein Show"
"Refreshingly optimistic and accessible."
--The Nation
"A fascinating read."
--The Wall Street Journal
"Spirited and inspiring."
--Jacobin
"Invigorating writing for a cheerless era. 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."
--Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Minister of Finance and author of
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
"Kristen Ghodsee has boldly gone where few would dare to tread. In
this warm, intelligent, and lucid book, she takes us on a deep dive
into how people have created better systems for living--systems
that actually work. With clear-eyed views of how utopian
communities can promote human thriving, she offers hope in a time
when we desperately need new ways of imagining the future."
--Robert Waldinger, New York Times bestselling author of The Good
Life and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development
"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. What a gift she's given us
with this mind-broadening investigation into how for millennia our
fellow human beings have reckoned with the toughest questions of
fidelity, family, and love."
--Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Can't
Sleep
"My god, this book is what I need right now! Exhilarating, good
humored, and forward looking, it's blown open my brain. What a
powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some
fantastical project, but also a very serious political one."
--Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and
Mad
"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, New York Times bestselling author of A Brief
History of Equality
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