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Tables of Contents for The Task of Utopia
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: The Problem of the Future
1
16
The Need for Utopia
1
2
Why Pragmatism, Feminism, and Utopia?
3
6
An Overview
9
8
The End-State Model of Utopia
17
32
Static Imagination
18
3
The Desirability of Perfection
21
5
The Possibility of Perfection
26
3
Rousseau: Utopian Education
29
5
Perfection as Process
34
2
The End-State Vision of Women's Country
36
1
Women's Country
37
3
Problems of the Vision
40
4
Women's Country: A Useful Utopian Vision?
44
5
The Anarchist Model of Utopia
49
34
Anarchist Imagination
50
3
The Cost of Freedom
53
5
The Possibility of Freedom and Its Maintenance
58
5
Anarchist Education
63
2
Freedom as the Precondition of Progress
65
3
The Anarchist Vision of Mattapoisett
68
2
Mattapoisett
70
4
Problems of the Vision
74
5
Mattapoisett: A Useful Utopian Vision?
79
4
Dewey's Democracy: A Process Model of Utopia
83
46
Intelligent Imagination
84
4
The Possibilities of Imagined Ends
88
2
Realizing the Possible
90
2
Dewey Rejects End-State and Anarchist Visions
92
5
Judging Future Possibilities
97
4
Education and Experimentation
101
4
The Need to Dream the Possible
105
2
Dewey's Community
107
6
A Picture of Community
113
5
The Possibility of Community
118
11
Feminism, Pragmatism, Community, and Utopia
129
32
A Feminist Critique of Dewey's Call for Community
131
4
Feminst Utopias
135
6
The Kesh
141
6
The Hill Women
147
6
The Valley and the Wanderground--Good Ends-in-View
153
8
The Future of Utopia
161
8
Bibliography
169
6
Index
175
4
About the Author
179