02037cam a2200301 i 4500 551273099 TxAuBib 20220330120000.0 210609s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021025766 9780593316283 HRD 26.00 0593316282 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib rda Kipnis, Laura. Love in the time of contagion [BOOK] : a diagnosis / Laura Kipnis. First edition. New York : Pantheon Books, [2022] 210 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. Provided by publisher. 20220330. Love History 21st century. Sex History 21st century. Dating (Social customs) History 21st century. COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.