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Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The fatal female flaw that meant Taylor Swift and Blake Lively's love affair was DOOMED from the start... and every woman is a victim of it
'Friendship never ends' sang the Spice Girls when riding the 90s girl power wave of faux, flimsy feminism. It's a sentiment that never did convince. How could it? We all know that 'girl code' is the most easily cracked and the fall out between gal pals fast and furious.
CBC
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
How the '90s girl power movement turned into marketing
The phrase "girl power" was coined by Bikini Kill in the early 1990s, but its meaning was watered down later in the decade when angry radical women in music were followed by younger, less opinionated pop stars. But how did this happen? Culture critic at The Atlantic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert takes a deep dive into 1990s and 2000s pop culture in her new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, to find out. Today on Commotion, host Elamin Abdelmahmoud speaks with Gilbert about her new book, how this pop culture shift happened and how its effects continue to shape our current moment. WATCH | Today's episode on YouTube:
