Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

Winner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022

In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence.

Looking at a variety of media sites—including film, television, popular print fiction, new media and new technologies...