{"product_id":"girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-9780593656297","title":"Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a most anticipated book of Spring by \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Bustle, LitHub, Our Culture, Kirkus, AV Club\u003c\/i\u003e and WNYC \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAtlantic \u003c\/i\u003ecritic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happened to feminism in the twenty-first century? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement's power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSophie Gilbert identifies an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when the energy of third-wave and \"riot grrrl\" feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Mining the darker side of nostalgia, Gilbert trains her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more. What she recounts is harrowing, from the leering gaze of the paparazzi to the gleeful cruelty of early reality TV and a burgeoning internet culture vicious toward women in the spotlight and damaging for those who weren't. Gilbert tracks many of the period's dominant themes back to the rise of internet porn, which gained widespread influence as it began to pervade our collective consciousness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is a devastating portrait of a time when a distinctly American blend 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, \u003ci\u003eGirl on Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and continues to shape our world today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSophie Gilbert\u003c\/b\u003e is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, where she writes about television, books, and popular culture. She won the 2024 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism and was a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. She lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243977736466,"sku":"9780593656297","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_336cf5a9-0dba-4d48-bc79-4c627b20684f.jpg?v=1745877153","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girl-on-girl-how-pop-culture-turned-a-generation-of-women-against-themselves-9780593656297","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}