Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Hope and Feminist Theory 2. Toxic Feminism: Hope and Hopelessness after Feminism 3. The "Short Step" from Love to Hypnosis: A Reconsideration of the Stockholm Syndrome 4. ‘Past and Future Perfect?’ Beauty, Affect and Hope 5. Notes on the Feminist Manifesto: The Strategic Use of Hope 6. Redefining Hope as Praxis 7. Reading Disorders: Online Suicide and the Death of Hope 8. Post-Millenial Feminist Theory: Encounters with Humanism, Materialism, Critique, Nature, Biology and Darwin

About the Author

Rebecca Coleman and Debra Ferreday are Lecturers in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University.