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Podcast: Standard Issue Podcast
Episode: Sophie Gilbert on how pop culture turned women against themselves
Description: In Girl On Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Sophie Gilbert underlines how popular culture isn’t an innocuous force. She chats to our Mick about how focusing on how women and girls have been presented in pop culture from the late 1990s through the first two decades of this century revealed modern misogyny has been shaped by a mass culture attuned to male desire and all-pervasive pornography. Girl on Girl is published by John Murray on May 1, but available for pre-order now. Lea...