Love in the Time of Contagion by Laura Kipnis

Love in the Time of Contagion by Laura Kipnis

In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world?

COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans?

Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

Laura Kipnis is a media studies professor at Northwestern University. The Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts have all given her fellowships and grants. She has written numerous essays and articles on sexual politics and current culture, both in the United States and internationally.

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ISBN 13	9780593316283
ISBN 10	0593316282
Title	Love in the Time of Contagion
Author	Laura Kipnis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-02-08
Number of pages	224
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