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Foreword: A utopian/dystopian spectrum : from fear to friendship, from consent to coercion / Gregory Claeys -- Introduction: Utopia and dystopia in the 21st century : feminism, intersectionality, and the rejection of binarism / Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak -- Between anthropocenic dystopia and ecological utopia. In need of new narratives : feminist ustopian fiction challenging the anthropocene / Alessandra Boller -- Post-anthropocentric ethics of care in turn-of-the-century fiction / Katarzyna Więckowska -- Environmental dys/utopian short stories in Olga Tokarczuk's Opowiadania Bizarne / Agnieszka Łowczanin -- The materiality of posthuman intersections and speculative discourse in fiction and art. Critical hope : relationalities in 21st-century speculative fiction and art / Dunja M. Mohr -- The mesotopia : from speculative realism to speculative artistic events / Tristan Verran -- Neganthropic architecture(s) : Renee Gladman's speculative reorientation of science-fiction / Małgorzata Myk -- Between history and sexual politics : alternate herstories and historical alternatives. Temporal politics : entangling fictions, futures, and histories in contemporary and historical speculative fiction / Adam Stock -- Utopia of intimacy : "The fear of the flesh," hyper-sexualisation, libidinal exhaustion, and a new sexual politics beyond Oedipal (wo)man / Mark Featherstone -- Do cyborgs dream of (becoming) people? : the alternative non-human self in Ian McEwan's Machines like me / Tomasz Dobrogoszcz -- In-between feminist and postfeminist dys/utopias. Twenty-first century gileads : feminist dystopian fiction after Atwood - The handmaid's tale, Natural way of things, The water cure, and The testaments / Fiona Tolan -- A rage of her own : the unpredictable powers of female flight in Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix / Svetlana Stefanova -- Feminist utopianism in the posthuman worlds of Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon / Katarzyna O