Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks. By Valentine M. Moghadam. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2005. 272 pp., $49.95 cloth (ISBN: 0-8018-8023-8), $18.95 paper (ISBN: 0-8018-8024-6). Published a decade after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks , by Valentine Moghadam, provides a detailed examination of the emergence of transnational feminist networks, the neoliberal globalizing processes that have given rise to them, and the policy agendas that these networks have pursued. Locating herself firmly within the tradition of feminist international political economy, Moghadam seeks to demonstrate that transnational feminist networks are the organizational expression of both the transnational women's movement and the ideals of global feminism. A former staff member of the United Nations and a consultant to international organizations, Moghadam guides the reader through the complex, acronym-filled worlds of six policy-oriented transnational feminist networks, and the other movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with which they are affiliated. Her goal is to demonstrate how these organizations have contributed to the construction of a more equitable global civil society. Globalizing Women is divided into eight chapters that address the gendered effects of contemporary neoliberal capitalism, the emergence of transnational feminist networks during the 1980s, the organizational characteristics of these networks, and the challenges they pose to the gendered injustices of global neoliberalism. The second chapter of the book contains one of the best reviews of feminist scholarship on globalization available. Focusing largely on the effects of global economic processes, Moghadam demonstrates how the increasing liberalization and deregulation of markets and the increased activity of multinational corporations have created increased inequalities among nations as well as among groups differentiated by gender and class. She argues that, by putting gender at the center of their analysis, feminist approaches to globalization and feminist scholars highlight how central the maintenance and exploitation of gender inequalities is to the global spread of neoliberal ideologies. From the increasing demand for workers to be flexible to the …