Systematic state erasure of half the population through restrictive decrees controlling movement, education, work, and autonomy represents authoritarian governance and gender-based oppression meeting dystopian criteria.
A market in Kabul, Afghanistan, last year. Most women say they have to get a male relative’s permission to leave the house.
State-imposed corporal punishment for non-compliance with religious dress codes exemplifies authoritarian control over bodily autonomy,… [more]
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