ABSTRACT
Initiatives introduced under the Safer Cities scheme included safe women's transport, additional lighting in car parks and subways and Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV). Safer Cities initiatives have been criticised as concentrating on physical responses to violence against women. Postmodern feminists argue that as feminism seeks to contextualise knowledge it is not compatible with scientific reasoning. Harding poses the science question as whether there should be an attempt to produce a feminist science or whether feminists should persist with their critiques of scientific knowledge. Science promises universal truths: a pure, technical, objective and rational knowledge free of cultural, political or social bias. Feminist geographer's recognition of the contextual embeddness of knowledge has further revealed the geographic nature of positionality. The spatiality of subjectivity offers a key issue for feminist geography. Feminist film theorist Teresa de Lauretis has gone beyond language and discourse as the sole source and locus of meaning to offer a more active notion of subjectivity.
