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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
Inspiring, thought-provoking, and wonderfully optimistic. I want to read it for the first time again.
4.5 rounded up and because I think it deserves higher than a 4* average. I really liked this book, have recommended it a few times and will continue to recommend it. It is not only a case study of various utopian experiments, but a defense of utopian thinking and argues that some "extreme" thinking needs to circulate for more moderate ideas in that direction to be enacted. The aspects of the status quo that the book challenges are thought provoking. This is very technically well written and structured. It is an explicitly feminist exploration with suspiciously little discussion of how these utopian ideas or experiments relate to other marginalized groups, especially racial minorities and the poor.
challenging
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
adventurous
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
slow-paced
The only problem I have with this book was the repeated argument that we need to live more communally to lower our carbon footprints. This sounds to me like the echos of the media campaigns of big oil, gaslighting average people into believing they are the cause of climate change rather than oil oligarchs and the lavish lifestyles of the ultrarich 1%.
informative
slow-paced
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
3.75 Strong reformist slant. Many European and American case studies. Inspiring.
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
It’s slow because there are a lot of facts but I like the way the author talks about specific areas where we can implement more optimistic/ community oriented thinking including housing, infant/toddler care, education, sharing property, family and relationships. The suggestions are rooted in history and statistics and vary from the complicated and often extreme historical examples at the beginning of the chapters to the more modern solution that’s actually doable in every day life.