This paper sheds light on the understudied phenomenon of female two-wheeler riders in Bangladesh, and their everyday negotiations of moto-mobility in patriarchal public spaces. In transportation research, female riders have traditionally been characterized as occupying the pillion seat. By conducting ethnographic observations of two-wheeler training clubs in Bangladesh (Dhaka) and qualitative interviews with female riders, the paper expands the discussion of gender and mobility beyond the usual focus on car and public transport in the Global South, which is critical for planning equitable and inclusive transport policies. Using the motility framework (access, competence and appropriation), this paper unravels the cultural, spatial and social dynamics of women's everyday moto-mobility. Through engagement in women-only training clubs which also serve as gendered social spaces, female riders actively build technical and spatial competence. They opt for safety-conscious approaches in driving behaviour, subverting traditional/masculine notions of dominance and authority. The findings also reveal how young riders subvert families and communities to acquire and ride motorbikes, but still largely conform (and adapt) to social norms to manufacture respectability (following normative sartorial choices, sex-segregated seclusion/purdah). In other words, their resistance is in proportion to how much they can assert themselves without facing negative repercussions from communities and society at large. As their presence and performances of micro-subversions rewrite spatial geographies (of risk and respectability), this has implications for reshaping the everyday transport geographies of women in urban public spaces. By presenting gender scripts as an element of appropriation in the constant negotiation of mobility, this paper contextualises motility in a non-western setting, and shows how multiple (seemingly contradictory) gender performances can feed into each other and regroup to facilitate women's access (to mobility) and rights in a gendered city.

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驾驭变革：探索达卡女性通过两轮车出行的风险和尊严导航


本文揭示了孟加拉国女性两轮车骑手的未被充分研究的现象，以及她们在父权制公共场所日常摩托车出行的谈判。在交通研究中，女性骑手传统上被描述为占据后座座位。通过对孟加拉国（达卡）的两轮车训练俱乐部进行人种学观察并对女性骑手进行定性访谈，本文将性别和流动性的讨论扩展到南半球国家汽车和公共交通的通常关注范围之外，这对于规划至关重要公平和包容性的交通政策。本文利用机动性框架（获取、能力和占用），揭示了女性日常机动性的文化、空间和社会动态。通过参与仅限女性的训练俱乐部（同时也是性别化的社交空间），女性骑手积极培养技术和空间能力。他们在驾驶行为中选择具有安全意识的方法，颠覆了传统/男性的统治和权威观念。研究结果还揭示了年轻骑手如何颠覆家庭和社区来购买和骑摩托车，但仍然在很大程度上符合（并适应）社会规范以制造尊重（遵循规范的着装选择、性别隔离的隐居/深闺）。换句话说，他们的抵抗力与他们在不面临社区和整个社会负面影响的情况下维护自己权利的程度成正比。由于她们的存在和微颠覆的表现重写了空间地理（风险和尊重），这对于重塑城市公共空间中女性的日常交通地理具有影响。 通过将性别脚本作为流动性不断谈判中的挪用要素，本文将流动性置于非西方环境中，并展示了多种（看似矛盾的）性别表现如何能够相互促进并重新组合，以促进妇女获得（流动性）和性别城市中的权利。