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“As a child, I thought that it was a bad thing to be born a woman, because that body clearly limited your liberties.”

Video by Camila Kater

Ms. Kater is a filmmaker.

From youth to old age, a woman’s body is viewed as something to regulate, comment on and critique — what’s personal becomes a matter of public opinion. In the short documentary above, five women share experiences from different stages of life. What they have in common is the sensation of being treated less like a person than like a body — like flesh.

Camila Kater is a director, scriptwriter and animator.

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