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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Challenges-Personal in Nature -- 1. Private Dreams and Collective Ideals -- 2. Why Altruism Is Considered Deviant Behavior: Obstacles on the Path to a Viable Utopia -- II. Challenges-Conceptual in Nature -- 3. Utopia Revisited: New Thinking on Social Betterment -- 4. Utopia-An Obsolete Concept -- 5. Utopianism Comes of Age -- 6. Utopia and the Attempted Flow of Useful Ideas: Why Being Able to Define and Measure a Clear Vision Matters -- III. Methods: Even Better Tools -- 7. Modest Steps toward an Ideal World: Sociological Practice and Utopia -- 8. Utopian Poetry: A Medium for the Message -- 9. Building Common Ground: Rethinking Rules of Engagement -- 10. The Utopian University of the People: A Story That Is Not Too Good to Be True -- IV. Methods: Information Technology -- 11. The Human Utopia and the Web -- 12. Toward a New Democracy -- 13. Internet Dreaming: Investigating Online Community at the Math Forum -- 14. Welcome to "the Collective": New Meaning to a Meeting of Minds -- V. Looking Inward -- 15. Understanding Opposing Viewpoints: Placing Yourself in the Shoes of the Other -- 16. The Conscious Use of the "Mirror Effect": Co-Creating a Utopian World -- 17. Surprised on the Run! -- VI. Looking Homeward -- 18. Utopias and City Planning: Finding Strength in One Another -- 19. Distributed Floating Cities: A Laboratory for Exploring Social Utopias -- 20. I Am a Utopian: Creating the "Resort Circle -- 21. Personal Utopia: Technology's Effect on the Meaning of Home -- VII. Schooling Possibilities -- 22. A Future Vision for Public Education -- 23. Blue Sky for Black America: Utopia and African America's Future -- 24. Inventing Utopian Delinquency Reforms: Being There in Ways That Work -- VIII. High-Schoolers on Utopia.

The author recounts his long personal involvement in the abortion drama of over 400,000 males annually found in the waiting rooms of over 400 clinics. He shares research findings from four waves of survey data from 1984 through 2004 involving 3,000 males. Highlights include the desire of almost all to stay with the clinic patient throughout the procedure and afterwards in the recovery room, though very few clinics allow this. A majority would like family planning education sessions, and some would appreciate personal counseling, though very few clinics offer these services. Clinics that pioneer in helping men could be honored, others pressured to do so, and laws considered to force reforms across the board. To date the Men's Movement has ignored the entire matter, and thereby missed a major opportunity to help many males claim a new and better manhood in what for many remains a secret and exceedingly trying matter.