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Book Review: Janice E. Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates, and Sovereigns: State-Building and Extraterritorial Violence in Early Modern Europe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, 214 pp., £22.50 hbk.)

In conclusion, Stienstra argues that there has been a significant change in the discourse around gender within international organisations and at the world level. This has resulted both from the politics of ’mainstreaming’ engaged in by liberal women’s movements and from the politics of ’disengagement’ practised by their more radical feminist sisters. Despite this shift in discourse, however, Stienstra cautions against over-optimism. Women’s programmes remain marginal in the system, and it is not possible to claim substantial changes in women’s situations across the world. The obstacles to change created by the global political economy, and the cleavages within and between women’s movements, have militated against women establishing themselves as a counter-