Global Governance Feminist Perspectives

by Rai, Shirin M.; Waylen, Georgina

• ISBN13: 9780230537057
• ISBN10: 0230537057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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 Senior Lecturer 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. viii
List of Acronyms	p. xi
Introduction: Feminist Perspectives on Analysing and Transforming Global Governance	p. 1
Analysing Global Governance	p. 19
Gender and the Making of Global Markets: An Exploration of the Agricultural Sector	p. 43
Global Governance as Neo-liberal Governmentality: Gender Mainstreaming in the European Employment Strategy	p. 64
Governing Intimacy in the World Bank	p. 84
Governing the EU: Gender and Macroeconomics	p. 107
Gender Mainstreaming and Regional Trade Governance in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)	p. 129
The International Criminal Court: A New Arena for Transforming Gender Justice	p. 160
Mainstreaming Gender in UN Security Policy: A Path to Political Transformation?	p. 185
Governing Globalization: Feminist Engagements with International Trade Policy	p. 207
Gender, Governance, and Globalization at Borders: Femicide at the US-Mexico Border	p. 234
Transforming Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 276
Index	p. 308
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