ABSTRACT
This chapter includes the introduction and roadmap, giving a guided overview and explicating the book as a whole. The introduction explains why the book offers unique access to contemporary and historical women writers who have mobilised the utopian imagination to rethink the human. These writers have broken into unfamiliar ontological territory in ways that radicalise the work of anti-racist and gender scholars today. It shows how at the fringes of the real and the imagined, SF’s spatial explorations allow writers to seek beyond the limitations of the present and discover spaces where embodied humanity can be opened to infinite reformulations. The roadmap gives an overview of chapters and their subdivision into sections.
