Fantasies of Singledom is a compelling exploration of how single women navigate their intimate lives within a culture that simultaneously celebrates and disciplines single femininity. Carefully attending to women's personal–and often deeply painful–accounts, and offering an incisive analysis of popular media representations, Kate Gilchrist provides a powerful critique of postfeminist culture and its seductive fantasies. A highly engaging and timely contribution that significantly advances our understanding of the relationship between gender, subjectivity, and contemporary culture.

Shani Orgad, Professor of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

What does it mean to be a single woman in contemporary culture? Why is she treated as both lacking and excessive, subject to momentary veneration and repeated pity, and why are the complexities of everyday life rarely depicted in media representation? In Fantasies of Singledom Kate Gilchrist picks apart these questions with eloquence and precision through in-depth interviews, sharp theorisations and timely media analysis to offer a fresh, rigorous and sophisticated perspective on the topic.

Jo Littler, Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis, University of London, UK, and Author/Editor of Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and the Political