Task of Utopia: A Pragmatist and Feminist Perspective Book

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