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"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.

MOST ANTICIPATED IN NEW YORK TIMES, HARPER'S BAZAAR, STYLIST, MARIE CLAIRE AND WASHINGTON POST'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever' KATE MANNE, author of Down GirlCosmetic surgeries are at an all-time high, Ozempic is bringing back 'heroin chic' and TikTok trad-wives are on the rise - after four waves of feminism, what went wrong?Despite decades of progress, the gains of the feminist movement feel more fragile than ever. But as Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert points out, this is not a unique moment. Feminism felt just as fragmented in the early 2000s, when the momentum of third-wave feminists and riot grrrls was squashed by lad culture and the commodification of Girl Power.Casting her eye across pop culture of the past thirty years - from Madonna, the Spice Girls and the Kardashians, to MySpace, #GirlBoss and Real Housewives - Sophie Gilbert reveals a toxic pattern of progress and misogynistic backlash. Girl on Girl shows how every form of media, heavily influenced by the rise of porn, has shaped and warped women's relationships with themselves and other women.We cannot move forward without fully reckoning with the ways pop culture has defined us - this book shows us how.'Add this book to the list of titles that urgently provide context and answers to the hell storm that is [vaguely waves around] everything going on right now' HARPER'S BAZAAR'A book that will make you think, and want to discuss' GLAMOUR'Blistering' NEW YORK TIMES

'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever' KATE MANNE, author of Down GirlCosmetic surgeries are at an all-time high, Ozempic is bringing back 'heroin chic' and TikTok trad-wives are on the rise - after four waves of feminism, what went wrong?Despite decades of progress, the gains of the feminist movement feel more fragile than ever. But as Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert points out, this is not a unique moment. Feminism felt just as fragmented in the early 2000s, when the momentum of third-wave feminists and riot grrrls was squashed by lad culture and the commodification of Girl Power. Casting her eye across pop culture of the past thirty years - from Madonna, the Spice Girls and the Kardashians, to MySpace, #GirlBoss and Real Housewives - Sophie Gilbert reveals a toxic pattern of progress and misogynistic backlash. Girl on Girl shows how every form of media, heavily influenced by the rise of porn, has shaped and warped women's relationships with themselves and other women.We cannot move forward without fully reckoning with the ways pop culture has defined us - this book shows us how.'Add this book to the list of titles that urgently provide context and answers to the hell storm that is [vaguely waves around] everything going on right now' HARPER'S BAZAAR'A book that will make you think, and want to discuss' GLAMOUR'Blistering' NEW YORK TIMES

Twelve incisive, probing essays on womanhood in popular culture. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice gathers a selection of Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert's essential and attentive essays on womanhood and popular culture. Unflinchingly positioning television and literature as capacious sites of feminist critique, Gilbert's criticism sharply surveys our contemporary media landscape. This collection joins treatises on beloved series like Game of Thrones with thoughtful meditations on Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale; ponders the lessons supermodels offer us on questions of consent; and examines the rebellious literary legacies of Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, and their respective contemporaries. On Womanhood offers some of the most commanding popular criticism of this generation.

Polttavan ajankohtainen kuvaus siitä, kuinka 2000-luvun alun popkulttuuri käänsi naiset ja tytöt toisiaan - ja itseään - vastaanMitä feminismille tapahtui? Sophie Gilbert analysoi teoksessaan käännekohtaa 1990- ja 2000-luvun taitteessa, jolloin pop-kulttuuria leimasi naisten yliseksualisointi ja esineellistäminen.Populaari tietokirja tutkii 90- ja 2000-luvun vaihteen naiskuvaa ja pureutuu aikakauden paljastavimpiin ilmiöihin, mm. musiikkiin, elokuviin, televisioon, muotiin ja juorulehtiin. Gilbert pui pop-kuvaston ja internetkulttuurin julmaa naisvihamielisyyttä, ja sen pitkiä vaikutuksia yhteiskuntaan.Gilbert piirtää musertavan kuvan ajanjaksosta, jolloin amerikkalaisen kulttuurin yltäkylläisyys, materialismi ja vallan ihannointi törmäsivät feminismin muutokseen ja sovinismiin. Tytöt vs. tytöt paljastaa 2000-luvun misogynisen verkoston, joka muodosti kulttuurin, jossa naiset kääntyivät itseään vastaan ja joka muovaa maailmaamme yhä tänäkin päivänä.Sophie Gilbert on työskentelee toimittajana The Atlanticissa, johon hän kirjoittaa televisiosta, kirjoista ja pop-kulttuurista. Hän oli ehdolla Pulizer-palkinnon saajaksi vuonna 2022 ja hän voitti kritiikeistään National Magazine Awardin vuonna 2024. Hän asuu Lontoossa.