Sophie Gilbert: Girl on Girl

From heroin chic to the commodification of girl power, Sophie Gilbert discusses how millennial pop culture turned a generation of women against themselves. 

Join Atlantic culture critic and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer Sophie Gilbert as she discusses her new book Girl on Girl, a deep dive into the pop cultural forces of the late 1990s and Y2K era that shaped and warped women's relationships with themselves and other women.  

Casting her eye across pop culture of the past 30 years, she tackles everything from Madonna, the Spice Girls and the Kardashians, to MySpace, the #GirlBoss movement and The Simple Life. In this new book, Gilbert reveals the cultural forces that shaped a generation and laid the groundwork for the misogyny of today.   

In this wide-ranging conversation, Gilbert discusses how millennial pop culture twisted feminism into objectification, the insidious power of media narratives and the pervasive influence of porn, and her own experience of growing up during these defining decades. With host Kate Jinx.