Summary
"This thesis analyzes gendered discourses of safety and danger in urban public spaces as they relate to women who embody salient social privileges. I seek to answer two related questions: (i) what are the dominant gendered discourses of safety and vulnerability regarding public spaces? And (ii) how are those discourses understood and negotiated by women who are most constituted or targeted by them? This research project is significant because it analyzes both the discursive construction of fearfulness and vulnerability and the ability to resist that construction."