Everyday Utopia

A practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, as pioneered by experimental communities throughout the world and across history - from the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.

''History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read'' THOMAS PIKETTY

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The 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 doesn''t seem to make us very happy.

And yet throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living - from the all-female ''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 propert