University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Violence Against Women. 2022 Feb;28(2):641-663. doi: 10.1177/1077801221998786. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
Women routinely practise taxing safety strategies in public, such as avoiding unlit spaces after dark. To date, scholars have understood these behaviors as means by which women bolster their physical safety in public. My in-depth interviews with women in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia suggest that, much less than reliably enhancing women's safety, safety work often exacerbates women's fear of violent crime and unreliably mitigates their exposure to violence. I thus interrogate the protective function of gendered safekeeping and reconceptualize women's safety work as , theorizing that women practice risk-management in public places to attain the ontological security associated with evading subjectivities of gendered imprudence.
女性通常会在公共场合采取繁琐的安全策略，例如避免在天黑后进入没有灯光的地方。迄今为止，学者们将这些行为理解为女性增强公共安全的手段。我对不列颠哥伦比亚省大温哥华地区的女性进行的深入访谈表明，安全工作远不能可靠地增强女性的安全，反而常常加剧她们对暴力犯罪的恐惧，并不可靠地减轻她们遭受暴力的风险。因此，我质疑了性别保护的保护功能，并将女性的安全工作重新概念化为，理论上，女性在公共场所进行风险管理，以获得与规避性别轻率的主体有关的本体论安全。
