Abstract

This article tries to study female insecurity feeling in everyday life in civic spaces. Although there are different kinds of insecurity in civic spaces for people of different strata, but it seams that women experience a special kind of insecurity feeling which is common among women of different groups and social classes. This is mostly due to their female body which is susceptible to rape and violence by men. To study this kind of female experience, 40 women residing in Tehran are interviewed and they are asked to explain how they manage their body when encountering such dangers in civic spaces.

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