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And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it.

Wonderful … Kristen Ghodsee doesn’t wear rose-tinted spectacles … but she seeks with great brio and nuance to lay out what some socialist states achieved for women … That Ghodsee also makes this a joyous read is the cherry on the cake

Ghodsee’s book could not have been published at a better moment ... There are many reasons to revisit socialist policies in a time of widening inequality, but a feminist perspective offers some of the most powerful incentives

Brilliant ... engaging ... Ghodsee is not naive [and] brings the necessary scepticism to her thesis [which] comes into sharp focus when she looks at what happened after the Wall fell ... [a] valuable record of how things were and how they could be

Capitalism’s triumph is a calamity for most women. Kristen Ghodsee’s incisive book brilliantly reveals their plight

This book is funny, angry and urgent – it's going to make readers think very differently about how they work, and how they live. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution. I'm already making a placard

Daisy Buchanan, author of How To Be a Grown-Up

'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood 
 
A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it. 
 
Unregulated 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 can change women’s lives for the better.

Kristen Ghodsee

History is made by the dreamers ... A must-read

THOMAS PIKETTY, author of A Brief History of Equality

This warm, intelligent and lucid book takes us on a deep dive into how people have created better systems for living – systems that actually work

ROBERT WALDINGER, author of The Good Life and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development

Exhilarating. A powerful reminder that dreaming of better worlds is not just some fantastical project but also a very serious political one

Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to be an everyday thing. In every home. Invigorating writing for a cheerless era

YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism

Liberating and inspirational ... Kristen Ghodsee's sweeping feminist history of society at its most creative

ADA CALHOUN, author of Why We Can't Sleep

A vision of what could be our future if we dare to dream

Better Ways of Living Equally

Throughout 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 learn from these experiments – from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras to the trail-blazing feminists of the French Revolution, from the cohousing movement in contemporary Denmark to the flourishing ecovillages of Colombia and Portugal. She shows why utopian thinking is essential to making a fairer world and that many of the best ways of getting there begin at home.

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