Global Governance 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

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Edited by

Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen

Global Governance

Also by Shirin M. Rai GENDER AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT MAINSTREAMING GENDER, DEMOCRATIZING THE STATE (editor) INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND DEMOCRATIZATION (editor) WOMEN AND THE STATE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (co-editor with Geraldine Lievesley)

Also by Georgina Waylen ENGENDERING TRANSITIONS GENDER IN THIRD WORLD POLITICS GENDER, POLITICS AND THE STATE (co-edited with Vicky Randall) TOWARDS A GENDERED POLITICAL ECONOMY (co-edited with Joanne Cook and Jennifer Roberts)

Global Governance Feminist Perspectives Edited by

Shirin M. Rai and

Georgina Waylen

Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen 2008 Individual chapters © contributors 2008

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Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

List of Contributors

viii

List of Acronyms

xi

Introduction: Feminist Perspectives on Analysing and Transforming Global Governance Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen 1

Analysing Global Governance Shirin M. Rai

2

Gender and the Making of Global Markets: An Exploration of the Agricultural Sector Elisabeth Prügl

3

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Global Governance as Neo-liberal Governmentality: Gender Mainstreaming in the European Employmen

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