Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Hope and Feminist Theory / Debra Ferreday -- 2.Toxic Feminism: Hope and Hopelessness after Feminism / Claire Colebrook -- 3.The "Short Step" from Love to Hypnosis: A Reconsideration of the Stockholm Syndrome / Celia Jameson -- 4.Past and Future Perfect? Beauty, Affect and Hope / Monica Moreno Figueroa -- 5.Notes on the Feminist Manifesto: The Strategic Use of Hope / Felicity Colman -- 6.Redefining Hope as Praxis / Joan Haran -- 7.Reading Disorders: Online Suicide and the Death of Hope / Debra Ferreday -- 8.Post-Millennial Feminist Theory: Encounters with Humanism, Materialism, Critique, Nature, Biology and Darwin / Maureen McNeil.