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When asked to consider alternative perspectives of “a good society” that have been ignored by the dominant socioeconomic theory and practice and to examine and question the prevailing consensus, Juliet Schor had the following to state:

... the concept of utopia draws one normally to the poetic or revolutionary. I begin instead on another tack: the prosaic and mundane. In my vision of a feminist utopia of work and leisure or a utopia of Women’s time, I am led to the cleaning of a toilet bowl. An unlikely starting point, to be sure, but I believe that a feminist utopia of work and time must begin with the quotidian, the ordinary, even the trivial. In my utopia, toilet cleaning goes the way of the corset.(Schor 1997, 45)

In this way “a good society” from a feminist economist’s point of view is all concerned with work and time off, the gendered distribution of work, the evaluation of and compensation for different kinds of work, and …