Reclaiming private space

In A Room Of One's Own (1929), Virginia Woolf argued that women must have money and space to write fiction. A century later, a group of theatre artists expand the thesis of their predecessor's feminist polemic. Despite enjoying access to the material basis for creative pursuit, women nowadays are still excluded from their most private space -- their bodies -- and subject to patriarchal domination.

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LEFT Miss Oat undergoes anal cancer screening. (Photo: Kamonlak Jirahitapat)

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