{"product_id":"girl-on-girl-sophie-gilbert-9780593656297","title":"Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eAtlantic \u003c\/i\u003ecritic 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSophie Gilbert, a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGilbert 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, \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 how it continues to shape our world today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sophie Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593656296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593656297\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.88d","brand":"Sophie Gilbert","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46173189767423,"sku":"9780593656297","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac6d60e3-c25a-416b-8b21-51f15d8de2dc.jpg?v=1727180251","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/girl-on-girl-sophie-gilbert-9780593656297","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}