I'm Just a Girl: How Reclaiming Girlhood Can Redefine Womanhood

It is a truth universally acknowledged that boys will be boys and girls have to grow up... Over the past decade, girlhood has repainted the cultural landscape pink.From Taylor Swift's The Era's Tour to Barbiemania, this nostalgia for girlhood has become a billion-dollar business, seen in the music we listen to, the clothes we wear, and the 2000s movies (and their long-awaited sequels) we watch on repeat.But at a time when women's rights are being rewritten, this resurgence in girlhood is complicated.Women are caught between a genuine desire to relive the wild freedom, joy and safety found in girlhood, while facing an ever-growing pressure to hold onto their youth.The world demands women continue to look like girls, yet they are rarely given the space to actually be girls.In I'm Just a Girl, journalist Jess Bacon introduces readers to the 'second girlhood', the extended adolescence that adult women have crafted for themselves as a means to reconnect with the part of themselves they left