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Your Perfect Dream Girl: Kaur Explores Women's Digital Psychological Fracturing

Your Perfect Dream Girl: Kaur Explores Women's Digital Psychological Fracturing
The hawk & the songbird: In Your Perfect Dream Girl, Sukhnidh Kaur explores how this psychological fracturing operates on a digital level today - Telegraph India · telegraphindia.com

A woman named Sukhnidh Kaur wrote a book called Your Perfect Dream Girl.

The book is made of twenty-five letters, and they are all written to a man she cannot see.

Kaur says girls and women are always watching themselves, even when they are alone.

They carefully pick which photos and posts to share on the internet.

She believes some companies build technology that makes money from women's lives online.

She gives this a long name: 'patriarchal technocapitalism.'

Some parts of the book come from the author's own sad and hard memories.

She uses the picture of a hawk and a songbird to show how one person can control another.

The reviewer says this picture appears so often that it loses some of its power.

Still, the book helps readers understand how hard it can be to be a woman on the internet.

Key facts

Book Title
Your Perfect Dream Girl
Author
Sukhnidh Kaur
Publisher
Penguin
Price
Rs 499
Format
Twenty-five letters to a faceless man
Central Concept
'Patriarchal technocapitalism'
References
John Berger, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, A Doll's House
Review Outlet
Telegraph India

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