Witness Women's Activism and Globalization, Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, and Global Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives, all published in the North, and all making efforts to think at a global or regional level and include material from the global South.5 Increasingly, globalization has become an object of knowledge within gender studies. Examples are Spike Peterson's careful incorporation of gender theory into global political economy, Sandra Harding's imaginative reformulation of feminist epistemology in the light of postcolonial thought, and Cynthia Cockburn's worldwide synthesis on gender relations and war.6 These changes represent great progress.