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The purpose of the book has been to expand our understanding of the women's movement in light of the challenges raised by postmodernism. The framework for the texts has been set by recent structural, ideological and cultural changes towards globalization - including the end of the Cold war bipolarization- and immigration and multiculturalism. The changes have produced new fields of co-operation and conflicts within the women's movements, and new questions that are dealt with in four main sections in the book.
The women's movements are seen as forming a wide range of discursive communities that have gradually unfolded at the global level during the 20th century. As such the volume invites to recognize the integrated nature of research, reflexion and contextualization. At both a literal and a general level it is a manifestation of the links between the women's movements and gender studies.
The anthology explores the diversity within the research on women's movements, and has both PhD students and researchers outside of and within the Nordic countries as contributors.
Crossing borders is a result of several years of co-operation and started with a NORFA-financed network "Women's movements and internationalization". Editors are: Hilda Rømer Christensen (Denmark), Beatrice Halsaa (Norway) and Aino Saarinen (Finland).
