Women in the United States and other Western nations owe a lot to feminist movements. Not only are we no longer considered the property of our husbands or fathers, we can actually vote, run for office, own property, not get legally raped by our husbands, and have abortions—although if some Republicans get their way, that last right could evaporate at any moment.
Women elsewhere haven’t been so lucky, and this is painfully apparent in #Female Pleasure, the 2018 documentary that focuses on how women’s sexuality is viewed in places where women are treated more like it’s the 6th century than the 21st. And there are, unfortunately, plenty of these places left on earth.
The film, by Swiss director Barbara Miller, profiles five women who have emerged from under the heavy weight of inequality to find some kind of liberation. One of these women, Deborah Feldman, was raised in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Hasidic community.
