Full Description
The Bachelor franchise has been around for over two decades and amassed an army of fans across its four shows. While contestants battle to prove they're here for the right reasons, Bachelor Nation is confronting their own question—Why are we here and why can't we stop watching?
Devout franchise fans Ilana Masad and Stevie Seibert Desjarlais pose the big questions to Bachelor Nation: Who are we? What does the franchise mean to us? And seriously, why on earth can we not stop watching?
For years, fans of the Bachelor franchise have laughed with and at contestants; cried along with their heartbreaks; tuned in again and again each season despite feeling betrayed by producer and contestant decisions alike; and celebrated, alone and together, the love (or loveless) lives of perfect strangers on our television screens. And we wonder, really, why? With reality TV broadly characterized as "trash TV," why are so many intelligent, funny, and critical people watching and discussing it?
Here for All the Reasons seeks to answer this question, diving into the complex negotiations of gender, racial, and class politics that arise within the fandom. This anthology is a polyvocal exploration of Bachelor Nation for Bachelor Nation. So, will you accept our rose and join the chat?
Contributors include: Iftin Abshir • AN • Joy Alicia • Samantha Allen • Stevie Seibert Desjarlais • Claire Fallon • Ness Ilene Garza • Sarah Gerard • Emma Gray • Carolyn Huynh • Alana Hope Levinson • Jeanna Kadlec • Erin Kayata • Shir Kehila • Ilana Masad • Jessica Masterson • Tamara MC, PhD • Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez • Julia Moser • Milo R. Muise • Zainab Omaki • Renée Reizman • Emma Rohloff • Samantha Paige Rosen • Adriane Stoner • Courtney Tenz • Chrissy Tolley • Alisa Ungar-Sargon • Sophie Vershbow • Serena Zets
Contents
Editor's Introduction: The First Impression Rose
1: How to Make Friends and Influence The Bachelor by Claire Fallon & Emma Gray
2: Zeno's Blow Dryer by Samantha Allen
3: Generational Roses by Ness Ilene Garza
4: White Picket Cage by Jeanna Kadlac
5: American Princess by Emma Rohloff
6: What Teaching The Bachelor Taught Me by Serena Zets
7: Reality TV Psychic by Chrissy Tolley
8: Bachelor auf Deutsch by Courtney Tenz
9: I, Michelle by Zainab Omaki
10: I Miss Being Single...And Then I Watch The Bachelor by Alisa Ungar-Sargon
11: Latinidad on The Bachelor/ette Franchise: Proximity to Whiteness Preferred by Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez
12: My Journey with The Bachelor: From Young Mother to Golden Age by Tamara MC
13: Professing The Bachelor by Adriane Stoner
14: Falling Out of Love with The Bachelor by Sophie Vershbow
15: Pick Me (Or Don't) by Alana Hope Levinson
16: How Not to Project Your Own Traumas onto the First Vietnamese Bachelorette by Carolyn Huynh
17: The Bachelor Has Entered the Chat by Renée Reizman
18: What It's Like to Watch Black Bachelorettes as a Black Woman by Joy Alicia
19: Will You Accept This Spoiler? by Iftin Abshir
20: Chiaroscuro by Shir Kehila
21: Trauma as Currency by Jessica Masterson
22: An Enduring Love by Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais
23: The Real Final Rose is the Friends We Made Along the Way by Erin Kayata
24: Late-Stage Heterosexuality & Me by Milo R. Muise
25: Watching The Bachelorette as a Certified Forensic Interviewer by Sarah Gerard
26: An Outsider's Perspective by AN
27: Everything Gold Can Stay by Samantha Paige Rosen
28: A Fantasy by Ilana Masad
29: Birding in Paradise by Julia Moser
Editor's Conclusion: After the Final Rose
