In Part Two of My Body, Their Battlefield, I trace the shifting architecture of control — from pulpits to platforms, from hospitals to warzones. This chapter of the series examines how faith, technology, medicine, and geopolitics continue to govern women’s bodies long after emancipation has been declared.

We begin with the myth of purity — exploring how religious morality and cultural taboo still shape laws, policing female virtue in the name of sanctity. From there, we enter the digital age, where fertility apps, surveillance capitalism, and reproductive data mining transform autonomy into algorythm.

The journey moves into the clinic — where medical bias, maternal mortality, and systemic neglect reveal that healthcare, too, can function as structural violence. And finally, we cross borders — into the spaces of migration, conflict, and war, where rape becomes a weapon, childbirth becomes resistance, and women’s bodies bear the burden of national identity.

This is not a story of victims, but of endurance — of women who persist in systems designed to silence them, and who remind us that autonomy under duress is still autonomy practiced.