You Were Born Free: Inside the Global Effort to Contain Women’s Autonomy — and the Unstoppable Reclamation Now Underway

How cultural conditioning, political pushback, and global resistance are shaping the modern fight for women’s autonomy.

Sasha, left, and her friend Tonny, right. Image/ MMG

Across the world, from bustling capitals, quiet rural towns, to war zones, and beyond, one message continues to echo through generations of women: freedom is conditional. It must be earned, proven, permitted, or delayed. It is something society grants sparingly and retracts easily.

But that message is a…