A disorder whereby the sufferer avoids places or situations where he or she previously had a panic attack; an agoraphobic typically avoids public places. Between 70 and 90% of people diagnosed with agoraphobia are female. Holmes (2008) Area 40, 3, 375 and Davidson (2005) Area 32, 1, 31 tackle this topic, but both articles are jargon-heavy and diffuse. P. Carter (2002) finds that ‘“space fear” ultimately results from the inhibition of movement’, a conclusion that signals a fascinating link with feminist geography.