WOMEN, THE CITY, FEAR, AND SAFETY: URBAN EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG WOMEN, THE CASE OF ANKARA

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2023-11

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Okan, Cansu

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This study examines the impacts of fear of crime and feelings of safety on young women’s everyday urban experiences in the case of Ankara. The main aims of this study are to understand how the gendered structures of spatiotemporal dynamics of the city influence young women’s everyday lives as well as young women’s construction and performance of their gendered and classed subjectivities within the urban spaces of Ankara. Underlining the ways in which the republican aims of modernity and secularism co-exist with the contemporary conservative discourses in women’s urban experience in Turkey, this study examines the ways in which highly educated young women contest the existing restrictions of the gendered urban space in their daily lives through an analysis of the in-depth interviews carried out with 52 young women.

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Urban Experiences, Fear of Crime, Safety, Gender, Young Women

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105995

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis