ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals the impact of mens intrusion on women's embodiment. It explores women's habitual modes of embodiment, marked by an external awareness on the environment and an external perspective on the bodily-self. Exploring participant's habitual bodily practices in public space revealed how these two interlinked yet individually powerful mechanisms intersected to encourage a particular modality of embodiment. External awareness, relates to what Coy terms experiential templates of risk. Here, conceptions of risk combine with a female fear of stranger perpetrated sexual violence, to encourage a habitual attitude towards the world Heidegger's concept of attunement marked by vigilance. Using Simone de Beauvoir to conceptualise this mode of bodily alienation facilitates an exploration of the role of ambiguity in both women's embodiments and situated agency. The poetic transcript woven demonstrates the frequency with which participant's strategic response to mens intrusion was to distance the self from the body and the world.
