Journalist Sophie Gilbert explores the sexist stereotypes and gender-based violence that permeated pop culture in the 1990s and 2000s.

When the Millennial generation came of age, technological developments were changing culture, ideology, and economics so rapidly that it was almost impossible to critically assess.

Only now, years later, are we beginning to understand just how much the rise of reality television, pornography, social media, and hustle culture impacted young people, and especially young women.

Based in Washington, D.C., Sophie Gilbert is an award-winning British journalist, staff writer at The Atlantic, and the author of the 2023 book On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice.

In her 2025 book, Girl on Girl, Gilbert analyzes key pop culture trends of the 1990s and 2000s and their implications for gender, sexuality, power, and success.