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Title: Crossing Boundaries.
Author : Journal of International Women's Studies
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
Pages : * pages
Size : 165 KB

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Introduction to this edition It was with mixed feelings that I offered to host a conference in the summer of 2003 for the Women's Studies Network (UK) Association. Whilst I have been committed to the Network for several years now, and have been involved as an Executive member and as Co-Chair, I took on the conference organisation at short notice and alone. I was not at all sure that I could pull it off! However, what I was clear about from the outset was the theme in which I was interested. My working title of Transcending Boundaries met with some resistance, with some colleagues on the Network Executive feeling that 'transcending' was somewhat ephemeral and that something more concrete was required from us--and indeed that we require from ourselves--in our work both within and without the academy. My view was (and remains, I think) that to cross boundaries still leaves them in place, and there are some boundaries I would rather transcend than cross. However, we eventually agreed a title of Crossing Boundaries and Conference calls for papers invited contributors to consider a range of boundaries, including: