Kristen Ghodsee

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In her new book Everyday Utopia Kristen R. Ghodsee takes readers on a tour through history and around the world to explore places that have dared to reimagine how we might live our daily lives. Kristen R. Ghodsee is a Professor of Russian and East European Studies and a member of the Graduate Group in Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and the critically acclaimed author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence, which has been translated into fifteen languages. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Jacobin, among other outlets, and she’s appeared on PBS NewsHour and France 24 as well as on dozens of podcasts, including NPR’s Throughline and New York magazine’s The Cut. Her latest book is Everyday Utopia: What 2000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life.