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Girl on Girl

By Sophie Gilbert

Girl on Girl Books

Girl on Girl

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"Girl on Girl How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves Sophie Gilbert TARGET CONSUMER: For Readers of Rebecca Traister, Jia Tolentino, and Roxane Gay From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other-and themselves-with disastrous consequences What happened to feminism in the 21st century? This question feels increasingly urgent after a period of reactionary cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement's power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress. Sophie Gilbert, a staff writer at The Atlantic and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and "riot girrrl" feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker side of nostalgia, training her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more. And what she recounts is harrowing, from the leering aesthetic of American Apparel ads and explicit music videos to a burgeoning internet culture vicious towards women in the spotlight and damaging for those who weren't. Gilbert tracks many of the period's dominant themes back to the explosion of internet porn, tracing its widespread influence as it began to pervade our collective consciousness. Gilbert paints a devastating picture of an era when a distinctly American confluence of excess, materialism, and power-worship collided with the culture's reactionary, puritanical, and chauvinistic currents. Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and how it continues to shape our world today"--
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Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2025-04-29
Publication Date:
2025-04-29
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593656296
ISBN13:
9780593656297
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
518 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
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