I'm Just a Girl

Name: I'm Just a Girl
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ISBN: 9780349447025

How Reclaiming Girlhood Can Redefine Womanhood

Jess Bacon

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Piatkus
09 June 2026

Society & Social Sciences; Popular culture; Feminism & feminist theory

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 behind: the girl.

Reconnecting with our inner girl is an empowering act of rebellion, allowing us to reclaim what was once taken from us. Jess shows us how our second girlhood offers a return to creativity and play that can ultimately improve our relationships, our mental wellbeing and establish a renewed sense of self. For far too long we have been presented with a false choice between womanhood and girlhood - this book is a celebration of a new way of being where we can fully embrace both.

By: Jess Bacon
Imprint: Piatkus
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 257g
ISBN: 9780349447025
ISBN 10: 0349447020
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 09 June 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jess Bacon is a freelance writer, culture critic, and speaker who specialises in film, digital culture, and feminism. She writes for publications such as Rolling Stone, GQ, The Guardian, Business Insider, Cosmopolitan, Stylist, Dazed, Refinery29, Huffington Post, Metro, Radio Times, SheKnows, PopSugar, the i paper, Daily Beast, Telegraph and Woman & Home. She has been a UN Women UK delegate at the Commission for the Status of Women. In 2023, she wrote for Dazed on the resurgence of girl culture and the commodification of girlhood - the piece garnered such a thought-provoking response that she realised she had far more to say.

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

A joyful, rebellious and much-needed book for every woman who knows, deep down, that the most powerful version of herself is the one she was never quite allowed to be. * Shahroo Izadi, author of The Kindness Method * Filled with an even measure of optimism, hope and unflinching melancholy, I'm Just A Girl is an iridescent love letter to living through the paradoxes of womanhood in the twenty-first century. Reading it felt like devouring the pages of a secret diary. Deeply nuanced and intricate, it's an absolutely essential book for any feminist book shelf. In a word: healing. * Lucy Rose, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lamb *