This article proposes that Bernadette Mayer’s Utopia, published in 1984, offers a model for thinking about care during the Covid-19 crisis. Against regimes of austerity, which regard care as a cost, Utopia considers care to be world-making. Mayer’s book, which I read as anti-work and family abolitionist, imagines motherhood as a public activity and organises this social care around pleasure rather than discipline or self-possession. Utopia imagines freedom through, not in spite of, interdependent bonds of compulsion. Today, feminists are once again criticising the nuclear family’s role in privatising care, and Utopia reminds us of similar, often overlooked utopian elements in 1970s feminism. In the present crisis, when care is both vital and elusive, it is particularly essential to assert the pleasures of care and to claim this care as freedom.

本文提出，1984年出版的Bernadette Mayer的《乌托邦》，为思考Covid-19危机期间的护理提供了一个模型。反对紧缩制度将护理视为代价，乌托邦则认为护理是世界之本。梅耶尔的书，我读作反工作和家庭废奴主义者，将母性想象为一项公共活动，并围绕享乐而不是纪律或自负来组织这种社会关怀。乌托邦通过（尽管有）相互依存的强迫联系来想象自由。今天，女权主义者再次批评核心家庭在医疗保健私有化中的作用，以及乌托邦让我们想起了1970年代女权主义中类似的，经常被忽视的乌托邦元素。在当前的危机中，当照料既至关重要又难以捉摸时，特别重要的是要维护照料的乐趣并声称这种照料是自由。