Construction sociospatiale de capabilités sexuées aux pratiques urbaines du vélo

Abstract

Teenage girls are significantly fewer than boys to not practice and not master basic urban bicycle skills. This can be partly explained by the fact that girls are generally very early socialized to avoid physical risk-taking and to invest in confined spaces. Then educated throw more supervised outings than boys, they are additionally rarely equipped with bicycles that facilitate turbulent practices. In parallel, they incorporate ways of thinking affecting their urban physical activities alternatives (capabilities) - particularly gendered in priority neighborhoods. Thus, although bicycle symbolizes for the most regular teenage practicing girls, an “access liberator” to the town, it represents a support of the public space male domination by body.