Girls, Interrupted How Pop Culture Is Failing Women

The past decade has seen a rise in documentaries, memoirs and podcasts that revisit the legacies of women wronged by pop culture. With movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, challenging long-standing narratives around female celebrities, it’ s no surprise so many believe the representation of women in the media has improved.  In her scathingly witty  collection of essays,  <I>Girls, Interrupted</I>,  <B>Lisa Whittington-Hill</B> argues otherwise. Pop culture’ s treatment of women, writes Whittington-Hill, is still marked by misogyny and misunderstanding. From the gender bias in celebrity memoir coverage to problematic pop culture portrayals of middle-aged women and the sexist pressure on female pop stars to constantly reinvent themselves,  <I>Girls, Interrupted</I>  critically examines how mainstream media keeps failing women and explores what we can do to fix it. A work of searing relevance, this candid and often cathartic debut marks Whittington-Hill as a cultural critic of the first rank.