Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves is out now. An excerpt is available to read at The Atlantic.

Girl on Girl has been named a top book of 2025 by ​The New York Times, Time, Washington Post, NPR, Boston Globe, Globe & Mail, Elle, and Kirkus. It's also one of Audible's top 15 nonfiction audiobooks of the year,  a finalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards in nonfiction, and has been named a top 10 nonfiction book for 2025 by Indigo booksellers.

It's available in the U.S. via Penguin Random House, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, and Apple Books. 
It's also available in Canada with McLelland & Stewart, in the U.K./Australia/NZ with John Murray Press, in Germany with Piper Verlag, in Finland with Kosmos, in Spain with Libros del K.O., in Catalonia with Raig Verd, in Brazil with Todavia Livros, in Portugal with Penguin Livros, in France with Actes Sud, and in Poland with Wydawnictwo Poznańskie. It has been/is being translated into ten languages.

"Across 10 rigorously researched but never stuffy chapters, 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: that self-objectification is empowerment, that disciplined conformism is a lifelong project, that sexism is comedy." The New York Times

"Girl on Girl covers how American culture writ large treated women from the 1990s to the 2010s. It’s to Gilbert’s credit that she makes a cohesive history emerge from this morass of references — from “Kids” to “The Hangover,” Heidi Montag to Marie Calloway, Bridget Jones to Cindy Sherman — that arise out of this era. A Pulitzer Prize-nominated critic and staff writer at the Atlantic, she draws examples from the tenor of blog coverage, bro buddy comedies, postfeminist auteurs and the detractors who obsessed over women over these decades. Throughout, her organization is as confident and nimble as her arguments." The Washington Post

"Sophie Gilbert's book Girl on Girl is a trenchant, erudite guide to the unfiltered misogyny that characterised US and UK pop culture in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Gilbert piles up examples and the effect is both enervating and stunning." Financial Times

"Gilbert's is the first book I've read that takes on porn and porn culture with the same feminist skepticism that we've long applied to all other forms of mass media, from music to movies to journalism to advertising ... It's a conversation that is well overdue." Slate

"It's such a persuasive reading of the past quarter-century in womanhood, you'll wonder why you didn't think of it first." ​Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

"Sifting through the wreckage of post-Roe America, Gilbert questions where feminism ran aground, replaced by tradwives who insist that leaving the workforce is a radical act and girlypops who tell their TikTok fans that no one loves women as much as Donald Trump. ... Her approach has given me new tools to examine incidents from my own life." Los Angeles Review of Books

"Chapter by chapter, Gilbert methodically shows how the backlash against second- and third-wave and riot grrrl feminism fueled the rise of incel culture, trad wives, the stay-at-home girlfriends on TikTok, and much more. There is a lot to unpack here, but it is well worth the effort." Associated Press

“In this triumphant debut, Pulitzer finalist Gilbert dissects three decades of pop culture, from the Riot Grrrl 1990s to the #Girlboss 2010s … It’s a tour de force of cultural criticism.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"In a carefully buttressed and sharply written analysis that takes into account a dizzying number of cultural products and characters, Gilbert tries to understand how we got where we are today ... Essential cultural criticism." Kirkus (starred review)

"In this incisive and witty critique of pop culture in the aughts, Gilbert deconstructs the phenomenon of postfeminism by examining cultural trends across film, music, reality television, and more … Thoroughly researched and superbly written, Gilbert’s book makes a convincing case for how the mainstream infiltration of pornography normalized the hyper-sexualization and infantilization of women. … This sharp and entertaining delve into the grim side of 2000s nostalgia will appeal to many Millennial readers and is an important work that contextualizes the systemic misogyny that remains pervasive to this day.” Library Journal (starred review)

I've given interviews about Girl on Girl to Vogue, The Cut, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour US, Glamour UK, Dazed, BOMB, Our Culture, All of It With Allison Stewart, Good on Paper, KERA Think, Anne Helen Petersen, Pandora Sykes, Crooked Media's Hysteria, CBC's Commotion, BBC Radio 5's Naga Munchetty, Times Radio, CNN's Audie Cornish, CTV's The Social, CTV's Your Morning, C-SPAN, PBS Newshour, and MSNBC's Morning Joe.

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