ABSTRACT
A number of scholars have identified the existence in Norway, Denmark and Sweden of a governmental division between gender and race/ethnicity, exercised through an organizational separation between issues related to gender equality and issues related to racism and ethnic discrimination. Michel de Certeau has distinguished between strategy and tactics as two practices with different temporality, spatiality and impetus. The concept of interest has been located at the core of Western political theory since the Enlightenment and conceptions of interest have often marked the limits of the political. Denise Riley points out that women is a changeable and varied category, within which female persons can be very differently positioned. In feminist scholarship analysing autonomous mainstream women's movements, the construction of a unified women's collective is often described in harmonious terms and self-explanatory ways. In the wider feminist movement in Scandinavia, a great variety of feminist grassroots and minority women's organizations carry out protests and make claims in relation to women's rights.
