Challenges for Iranian Women in Daily Urban Safety

Author:

Hamedanian Fatemeh,Ghadermazi Sirwan

Abstract

Ensuring the safety of women as a vulnerable group in urban areas is a fundamental issue and of utmost importance to issues such as violence, crime, victimization, and depression. The purpose of this study is to investigate, through qualitative analysis, the contexts, causes, and consequences of women's feelings of unsafety in urban environments. The research field of the study is the public spaces of Tehran. The subjects and their spatial and interactive dimensions were explored through in-depth individual interviews, direct observation, and participant observation, and data from this study were analyzed using grounded theory. The results show that women's feeling of not being safe in the urban space of Tehran, the capital of Iran, is the result of some influential structural factors such as “socioeconomic challenges” and “dysfunctional socialization” and some contextual factors such as “crowded places” and “showing off.” The women in the study also believe that their feelings of unsafety are reinforced by certain reasons evident in the behavior, language, and gestures of men. The feeling of unsafety among women has consequences at the micro and macro levels. Because of this feeling, women take “preventive measures” at the micro-level and at the macro-level, such feelings of unsafety lead to the spread and reinforcement of the “decay of social trust.”

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

Subject

General Social Sciences

Reference44 articles.

1. Women and fear of Crime in urban spaces;Alikhah;Soc. Welf. Res. Q,2006

2. The study of the feeling of social security and the factors affecting it from the perspective of Tehran citizens;AmirKafi;Iran. Soc. Sci. Res. Q,2010

3. Neglected aspects of self theory: motivation, interpersonal aspects, culture, escape, and existential value;Baumeister;Psychol. Inquiry,1992

4. Gender, urban space, and the right to everyday life;Beebeejaun;J. Urban Affairs,2017

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3