Abstract Feelings of safeness in public space differs a lot between the sexes, where women more often than men feel unsafe. But how do men relate to feelings of safeness in public spaces and how does unsafeness affect the relation between men and women? This study focusses on men’s behaviour towards women and how their behaviour changes during times of unsafeness, and how this behaviour affect´s men´s relationship with their romantic partners. The study is a case study and will focus on the city district Ålidhem in Umeå city, which reputation has suffered from the current image that local medias have projected. This case is interesting when it allows us to study how men in today´s society relate to problems with safeness in public space. The study´s result is based in six qualitative semi-structured interviews. the interviews were conducted with six young men in age 20-30 who had experience living in- or had prior experience living in the city district Ålidhem or had a relationship with a woman who had a similar experience. The interviews were later analysed through a narrative analysis method. The study´s result show that the men are more open with expressing their feelings of unsafeness and to talk about what types of factors that affect their mindset than previous studies show. These men sometimes felt that they got perceived as threatening elements in public spaces by unknown women, especially at night. This perception of the men as threatening elements sometimes caused the men to change their behaviour, like slowing down or taking other paths to their destination, to dampen the woman´s feeling of anxiety. The men themselves sometimes felt anxiety towards their romantic partner when they move in public spaces and they sometimes applied certain strategies to safeguard them. These strategies however weren’t a product of the men’s anxiety, but rather more often a product of the women´s. KEYWORDS: Safety in public space, Gender normative behaviour, Security planning

Being a woman and living with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) involves double difficulties. Women need to put up with gender-normative demands on how women should be and women with ASD also face difficulties when trying to live “as others”, despite their symptoms. In this thesis we aim to, from an intersectional perspective, study how women with ASD handle gender-normative demands in combination with the maintenance of a good self-image and relationships with others. Our study is a qualitative literature study in which the empirics are based on autobiographies written by, or in collaboration with, women with ASD. The results, concerning the difficulties that women with ASD face, go hand in hand with what previous studies show; women with ASD are shown to mask and imitate their surroundings and theirself-image often change when being diagnosed. Our addition to previous studies is the critical approach to how researchers refer to and study women with functional variation. We find a unilateral perspective insufficient and stress that an intersectional perspective is needed to understand the difficulties women with ASD face. Functional variation or gender alone does not give a full perspective. In our study we therefore have an intersectional, multidimensional, perspective and show that the difficulties women with ASD experience are not only related to their diagnosis but also to their gender.

The present dissertation aimed to problematize and understand the gender relations through the film "Today I want to return alone" (2014), fiction directed by the filmmaker Daniel Ribeiro, as a tool of education under the bias of the filmic analysis. The film tells the story of the blind teenager, Leonardo (Guilherme Lobo), who, through the discoveries and curiosities typical of his age and in search of his own identity, finds himself in love with a new class student. However, being blind and homosexual does not define it. They are only characteristics of a young man who has fears and doubts like any other of his age. As a research method, the film analysis was used, respecting the phases of decomposition and reconstruction. The data were organized from two thematic axes - homosexuality and gender normativity - with the intention of thinking about how the contemporary cinematographic productions are meaning some themes that revolve around the problematic of the body and its manifestations of identity, ethical-moral and political , In the sense of designing social practices of gender. The results of the analyzes indicate that the film's proposal continues to present the creation of new archetypes, at the moment when it exhibits a radical redefinition and redistribution of gender in that it indicates that the male body can feel desire / affection for another body of the same sex Without presenting feminine characteristics, transforming the action of macho gender present in society. / A presente dissertação objetivou problematizar e compreender as relações de gênero através do filme “Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho” (2014), ficção dirigida pelo cineasta Daniel Ribeiro, como ferramenta de educação sob o viés da análise fílmica. O filme narra a história do adolescente cego, Leonardo (Guilherme Lobo), que, passando pelas descobertas e curiosidades típicas da sua idade e em busca de sua própria identidade, se descobre apaixonado por um novo aluno de classe. Porém, ser cego e homossexual não o define. São somente características de um jovem que tem medos e dúvidas como qualquer outro da sua idade. Como método de pesquisa, foi utilizada a análise fílmica, respeitando as fases de decomposição e reconstrução. Os dados foram organizados a partir de dois eixos temáticos - homossexualidade e normatividade de gênero - com o intuito de se pensar como as produções cinematográficas contemporâneas estão significando alguns temas que giram em torno da problemática do corpo e suas manifestações identitárias, ético-morais e políticas, no sentido de projetar práticas sociais de gênero. Os resultados das análises apontam que a proposta do filme segue apresentando a criação de novos arquétipos, no momento em que exibe uma radical redefinição e redistribuição de gênero na medida em que sinaliza que o corpo masculino pode sentir desejo/afeto por outro corpo do mesmo sexo sem apresentar características femininas, transformando a ação de gênero machista presente na sociedade.