Women maturing in patriarchic societies have been taught that moral women keep clean houses and organized closets.  When the artist asked acquaintances if she could take photographs of the inside of their closets even when she assured them no one would know whose closet it was, without an exception, they said, “Oh, I must organize it first.” 

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