ABSTRACT
In Part II questions of intersectional and transnational power relations of various kinds were examined. The section ended with a comparative study of sexual violence in war. In showing that this social phenomenon varies considerably in different cultural settings, it implies that it is possible to change the multiple and intersected power relations involved and thereby inhibit rape in war. Can we also, more generally, hope for increased action towards solidarity in the world? Is it possible that women’s movements can defi ne and unite around common goals and demands in spite of the many social, economic, sexual and cultural differences and confl icted interests that obviously divide us? Is it possible to know or say anything well-grounded about how existing gendered and sexual social relations are changing on a global scale? In Part III we assume that a necessary but not suffi cient precondition would be to make the research literature, as well as the general understanding of what globalization and transnationalization are about, less gender-blind or supposedly gender neutral. In this respect the explicit gendering of men is crucial.
