Fearful women transit public space in planned, purposeful bursts rather than strolling

Evidence

Should the occasion arise when she must leave her position and move to another location, she does so purposefully, in a businesslike, no-nonsense way. She does not “stroll” from one part of the setting to another. Having first carefully planned her move, she proceeds with all deliberate speed to her new destination. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 876

Categorization

• XREF: Sharply contrasts Julius’s flâneur wandering in the reader’s current reading — where Cole’s observer drifts and detaches, the Sweet Young Thing moves in tense, planned trajectories. Opposite poles of the same space-management problem. — connects to: Moral panics about women online repeat Victorian fears of women in stores — Brooke Erin Duffy, (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love:…, 53; Church women mapped gender onto church-versus-street spatial oppositions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 931