Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One History and Utopia at the Fin de Siècle -- I. Introduction -- II. The Great Depression -- III. The culture of expectancy -- IV. Modernity and utopia -- Chapter Two State Socialism and Utopia -- I. Introduction -- II. Utopia and the intelligentsia -- III. Petty-bourgeois socialism -- IV. Utopianism and reformism -- V. Looking Backward -- VI. Dialectics of utopia -- Chapter Three Feminism and Utopia -- I. Introduction -- II. The New Woman -- III. The politics of fellowship -- IV. Feminist utopianism -- V. Utopian epistemology -- VI. New Amazonia -- Chapter Four Anti-Communism and the Cacotopia -- I. Introduction -- II. The emergence of the cacotopian genre -- III. The impact of the Paris Commune -- IV. The anti-communist imaginary -- V. The crisis of metropolitan experience -- VI. Cacotopia and the utopian impulse -- Chapter Five Utopia and the Present in News from Nowhere -- I. Introduction -- II. Utopia and the present -- III. The utopian present -- IV. Nowhere and the here and now -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.