The Culture That Sold Women Back to Themselves

This episode reviews Girl on Girl as a sharp and unsettling work of cultural criticism about late 1990s and early 2000s pop culture. Sophie Gilbert argues that an entire generation of women was taught to mistake visibility for power, sexual objectification for liberation, and self-surveillance for confidence. In three minutes, the episode asks why the book feels so necessary, why its evidence is often devastating, and whether its caution sometimes keeps it from landing the harder final blow.