Women have been active in political protests in Jordan from the 1890s to the present, including anti-tax protests against the Ottoman Empire. This paper will examine the role of women’s participation in protests across different spaces in the build environment, drawing attention when and how women’s participation in women-only or mixed-gender protests differs from other protests (including other mixed-gender protests), and when it does not. Protesters and activists frequently confront the hyper-masculinity of the various security forces, including the plain-clothed baltajiyya thugs. Women activists in such spaces often adjust their protest repertoires to confront those forces while also seeking to deflate the potential for violence. I will pay particular attention to various spaces and geographies of protest—spaces within Amman’s built environment but also the geographies of protest nationwide of when and where women join protests. The paper will draw on archival data as well as ethnographic material from the dozens of protests that I observed.