Bobby Sands, MP: IRA Volunteer and Revolutionary Icon

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tion (p. 42). Although they stand against bending to the will of global capitalism, fem inists from a range of perspectives do present proposals for action. Yet the multiple voices and nuanced positions of feminist political economy and post colonial literatures are lumped together and pushed aside. To their credit, Bahramitash emphasizes the role of women organizations and their in fluence on the state for guaranteeing wom en's rights and Jaquette and Staudt devote the last section of their volume to women's mo bilization and power. That both volumes are compelled to address women's activism is the signature of a wide and strong network of women's organizations the world-the congealing of a global women's and feminist (that includes all sorts of feminist and women-centered posi tions). In the closing chapter, Empowerment Just Happened: The Unexpected Expansion of Women's Organizations Tinker claims that the leap from disparate organizations to a diverse global women's movement relied on funding by international development agencies (p. 299). Several feminist sociolo gists have approached what drives the glob al women's movement. While we know re sources are important for all social move ments, that makes the world go around may matter more in explaining the rise of transnational feminist networks. Searching the internet to see if my em bellished refrain taken from the movie musi cal Cabaret (1972) had been used elsewhere, I found it as the title of the first chapter of Cynthia Enloe's book, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of Interna tional Politics (1989). This is probably where I sourced the title, cranially filing it whilst in graduate school. I was also encouraged to re member Enloe's book, an exemplary volume that bridges feminisms and in which gender and the global economy are envisioned as a single process.