Joyce Fegan: Why Britney Spears' story is relevant to all women

Britney Spears was only a teenager when she became 'a role model for young girls and desirable to boys and men. We put that on her. All she was doing was singing and dancing'. Picture: AP Photo/Chris Pizzello
At the heart of the new Britney Spears documentary is a woman's agency, a woman's right to be in control of her own resources, a woman's right to how she shows up in the world — basically, a woman's right to exist, on her own terms.
, a documentary by , is, of course, about the gilded cage in which the musician now exists thanks to her father's control and dominance over all of her affairs — financial, medical, and physical — but it's also the story of how we treat women in society.