To Boldly Know Where No One Has Known Before: How Blue Sky Thinking Can Set Us Free -- Home is Where the Walls Are: Thinking Outside the Single-Family Box -- Kids as Public Goods: Why the Privatization of Childhood is Bad for Families -- The Good School: Educating the Next Generation of Social Dreamers -- Imagine No Possessions, I Wonder Why We Can't: How Sharing Our Things Can Open Our Hearts -- Shall I Compare Thee to a Violent Ape: Why Our Families Are Nuclear -- You and Me and Baby Makes Misery: Expanding Our Networks of Love and Care -- The Star Trek Game Plan: How Radical Hope Defeats Dystopian Despair

"A spirited tour through 2,500 years of utopian thinking and experiments to tease out better ways of imagining our domestic lives - from childrearing and housing to gender roles and private property - and a look at the communities putting these seemingly fanciful visions into practice today"--