Sophie Gilbert: 'Why have women in power felt so detached for so long?'

Sophie Gilbert: "The idea for the book came about in 2022 after Roe v Wade was overturned, after the #MeToo moment when we’d had all these women’s stories and narratives."

"Everything old was new again…yet darker and more disengaged,” writes Sophie Gilbert in Girl On Girl. She’s talking about the positioning of women in pop culture, and how, rather than being linear, the progression of feminism remains agonisingly circular, two steps forward, one step back, its trajectory reflected in music, film, online.

Gilbert knows her pop culture — she’s a staff writer at The Atlantic, a Pulitzer finalist taking us on a richly detailed deep dive into the shallows of pop, porn, movies, tabloids, reality TV, fame, sex, fashion, work.