The Household: Informal Order around the Hearth

Some People Dwell Alone, Many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Drawing on a broad range of historical and statistical sources, Robert Ellickson contrasts family-based households with the more complex arrangements in medieval English castles, Israeli kibbutzim, and contemporary cohousing communities. He challenges utopian critics who seek to ...