Repeatedly, the film shows this venturesome woman alone at all hours—yet never do we see her fearing or fending off assault.

Susan Fraiman
Susan Fraiman is professor of English at the University of Virginia. Her most recent book, Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins (Columbia University Press, 2017), explores domestic precarity and creativity among queer, working-class, immigrant, and other marginal figures. She is also the author of Cool Men and the Second Sex (Columbia University Press, 2003), Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development (Columbia University Press, 1993), and articles in such places as Critical Inquiry, PMLA, New Literary History, and Signs.