Kristen Ghodsee

Author

Kristen Ghodsee is an American ethnographer and author who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She specialises in gender, socialism, and the political economy of everyday life. Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life examines historical and contemporary experiments in communal... living, shared childcare, and alternative economic models — from ancient Sparta to modern cohousing — arguing that rethinking domestic life is key to building a better society. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers provocative, rigorously researched ideas about how we might live differently — everyday utopianism grounded in two thousand years of evidence. Read more Show less