Girl on Girl How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

Sophie Gilbert

eAudio - 2025

“Searing... rigorously researched but never stuffy... Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls and young women reality-warping lies.” —The New York Times “So clear-eyed that it’s startling." —The Washington Post “Entertaining and even energizing, transforming a dismal history into something like a rallying cry.” —The Boston GlobeFrom Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop cultureWhat happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of cu...ltural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement’s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of... more