GIRLS(R)

''Anyone who cares about the girls and young women in their lives should read GIRLS®'' JONATHAN HAIDT''Freya India is one of our sharpest, smartest young writers'' HELEN LEWISGIRLS®: Gen 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, we have become the product. We display our lives on Instagram, advertise ourselves on dating apps and package ourselves into personal brands, making anxiety feel overwhelming and unmanageable. We have transformed from 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