GIRLS®

Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything

De: Freya India

Narrado por: Freya India

This program is read by the author.

GIRLS®: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything is a passionate, provocative, and deeply personal journey into the pressures shaping young lives today. Freya India shows that age-old anxieties of girlhood are now being amplified by modern life and exploited like never before. While previous generations of women were relentlessly sold products and procedures, girls today have become the product, displaying their lives on Instagram, advertising themselves on dating apps, and packaging themselves into personal brands, making anxiety feel overwhelming and unmanageable. As a society, we have transformed girls into GIRLS®, from people into products.

Each chapter of GIRLS® focuses on a common anxiety in adolescent girls’ lives, from insecurities about our faces and bodies, to our reputation and social status, to our friendships and romantic relationships. Along the way, India traces how rapidly culture and technology have evolved over the past decade.

This isn’t just an audiobook for girls. For young women, it offers a nostalgic, if unsettling, reflection on the world they’ve grown up in and reassurance that they’re not alone in their struggles. For younger girls, it provides context for where these challenges began and warns where they might be headed. And, for parents, teachers, and older generations, it serves as a reminder that these issues have never been so intense.

GIRLS® concludes with a message of hope, reminding listeners how to reclaim their privacy, defend their dignity, and, above all, return to being people instead of products.

A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Quite suddenly, in the early 2010s, the mental health of girls collapsed. Researchers scour datasets and argue over what caused it, but Freya India has given us an explanation from the inside, one that is far more compelling and compassionate than a thousand studies. Anyone who cares about the girls and young women in their lives should read GIRLS®. The book is disturbing but the writing is gorgeous. India is the most powerful voice of Gen Z yet to emerge."
—Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

"Freya India is one of our sharpest, smartest young writers. A superstar in the making, her writing is the opposite of an Instagram filter—suddenly, you can see everything more clearly."
—Helen Lewis, staff writer at The Atlantic, author of The Genius Myth

"Freya India has written the definitive analysis of a generation of young women. With terrific reporting, sharp analysis, and some unforgettable sentences, she explains how female insecurity has been captured, branded, and sold for profit by companies and social media platforms. If you want to understand America’s psychological crisis, India argues, we have to understand the economics behind it. She’s absolutely right."
—Derek Thompson, co-author of Abundance

The Damage Social Media has Done

This book perfectly explains how social media has ruined us, ruined young women and girls.

Excellent

The speaking was clear and the pacing impeccable. Will recommend to others. Well done, Freya!

Great book!

Every girl from Gen Z should listen to this book
Very detailed & very correct
This book will help a lot of people
Thanks for writing & reading this book

Superb work

I’ve worked in the big data space for 20 years. Many of us knew how badly social media was messing with everyone, and girls in particular. Some of us even blew the whistle, but were rug pulled and blacklisted for it. Great to see this awareness entering the mainstream