Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Shirin M. Rai, Georgina Waylen (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Feminist Perspectives on Analysing and Transforming Global Governance....Pages 1-18
Analysing Global Governance....Pages 19-42
Gender and the Making of Global Markets: An Exploration of the Agricultural Sector....Pages 43-63
Global Governance as Neo-liberal Governmentality: Gender Mainstreaming in the European Employment Strategy....Pages 64-83
Governing Intimacy in the World Bank....Pages 84-106
Governing the EU: Gender and Macroeconomics....Pages 107-128
Gender Mainstreaming and Regional Trade Governance in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)....Pages 129-159
The International Criminal Court: A New Arena for Transforming Gender Justice?....Pages 160-184
Mainstreaming Gender in UN Security Policy: A Path to Political Transformation?....Pages 185-206
Governing Globalization: Feminist Engagements with International Trade Policy....Pages 207-233
Gender, Governance, and Globalization at Borders: Femicide at the US-Mexico Border....Pages 234-253
Transforming Global Governance: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 254-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-318

✦ Subjects

International Relations; Gender Studies; Political Sociology; Development Studies; Sociology, general; International Organization