Global Governance, 2008 Feminist Perspectives

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of global governance from a gendered perspective. It not only furthers the emerging feminist theorizing on global governance, but also provides a theoretically informed and empirically based analysis of both institutions and transformative practices.

Introduction: Feminist Perspectives on Analysing and Transforming Global Governance; S.M.Rai  & G.Waylen Analysing Global Governance; S.M.Rai   Gender and the Institutions of Global Markets: An Exploration of the Agricultural Sector; E.Prugl    Global Governance as Neo Liberal Governmentality: Gender Mainstreaming in the European Employment Strategy; S.Woehl Governing Intimacy in the World Bank; K.Bedford Governing the European Union: Gender and Macroeconomics; C.Hoskyns   Trade Governance and Gender Mainstreaming in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum; J.True Governing International Law through the International Criminal Court: A New Site for Gender Justice?; L.Chappell Mainstreaming Gender in UN Security Policy: A Path to Political Transformation?; C.Cohn   Governing Globalization: Feminist Engagements with International Trade Policy; D.Liebowitz Gender, Governance, and Globalization at Borders: Femicide at the US/Mexico Border; K.Staudt Transforming Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities; G.Waylen

SHIRIN M. RAI is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Her main areas of research are gender and international political economy, democratization and political institutions, and she is the author of Gender and the International Political Economy of Development.

GEORGINA WAYLEN is Reader in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, UK. Her main areas of research are gender and international political economy and gender and transitions to democracy. She is the author of Engendering Transitions and Gender in Third World Politics.