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Girl on Girl

How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

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Girl on Girl

Auteur(s): Sophie Gilbert
Narrateur(s): Sophie Gilbert
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 A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe

“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 Globe

From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture

What 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.

Sophie 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.

The 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, Girl on Girl 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. Culture populaire Le meilleur de 2025 Questions de genre Sciences sociales
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First and foremost, if Sophie Gilbert's career as an author ever fails then she should definitely think about narrator for audiobooks. Easily one of the best "performances" by an author of that I've listened to. Great inflection and felt like she was chatting with the reader instead of just reading words she once read.

As for the book itself, a must read for any millennial who owned a TV, computer, smart phone, magazine, book or CD as they grew up. By the end of the book, Gilbert convincingly argues that pop culture isn't frivolous or a distraction, but it IS culture that should be treated seriously even when it's not creating serious things.

Pop Culture is Culture

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Girl on Girl is a really well-researched and well-written listen. The author, who also narrates, has a lovely voice and engaging tone that makes the book easy to follow.

Because it’s written by a UK author, there are a few cultural references and bits of slang that don’t always translate for North American listeners. For example, she often refers to the “aughts” (A-U-G-H-T), which in North America we’d simply call the 2000s (2000-2009). A few other British phrases also made me pause or do a quick Google, but they never took away from the overall experience.

All in all, it’s insightful, well-researched, and absolutely worth the listen. Highly recommend.

Highly Recommend !!!

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