![]() ![]() ![]() p.234), meaning how women walk not to see their surroundings but to be seen. ![]() ![]() Solnit also presents how “women’s walking is often constructed as performance rather than transport” ( Wanderlust: A History of Walking. p.232), showing how women are sexualised, for just walking. For example Solnit states “in Britain the term “walking out together” sometimes meant something explicitly sexual” ( Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Another point Solnit was trying to say was how women fear going out at night by themselves because they could be attacked, raped, and so on, so they walk with a man, but even with a man they are not safe as society attacks us for being “whores”. She begins with this story to really show the severity of this situation, which is constantly being ignored, not being able to walk at night for being a women, has started as far back as 1870 and even further, such as Middle Assyria. The beginning of chapter 14 of this book, Solnit begins with talking about a woman called Caroline Wyburgh at age nineteen went on a walk with a sailor in Chatham England, in 1870, who then got arrested for suspicion of being a prostitute, forced into a medical examination and threatened if not she would go to jail and after much struggle she agreed to only be sexually harassed and thrown back into society, as she’s “not a bad girl”, while the man she’s walked with was never questioned. ![]()
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