#1139 Kristen Ghodsee: Real-Life Utopian Societies
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. Kristen Gotsey. She is professor and chair of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In our previous interview, we talked about her book, Why Women Have Better Sex under Socialism, and today we're talking about her other book, Everyday Utopia, What 2000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us about
the good life. So Dr. Gotzi, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. Yeah, no, it's really fun to be back.
Thanks so much for the invitation. Okay, so everyday utopia. Uh what is the premise of the book? Yeah, so it's a very simple premise. But it has a lot of implications because basically what I'm arguing in the book in sort of very concrete steps is that the way that we in, let's say, the industrialized north today organize our domestic lives is actually an aberration.
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