The whole thing is pretentiously written blather. > This is not to say that all women who appeared in public were assumed to be sexually available, nor that mi

The whole thing is pretentiously written blather. > This is not to say that all women who appeared in public were assumed to be sexually available, nor that middle-class women were forbidden from the streets. The streets enabled a wide variety of encounters, dependent on the particular circumstances in which they occurred. Such insight!