Global governance : feminist perspectives / edited by Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen
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- 出版: Basingstoke ;New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2008
- 主題: Feminism--Political aspects , Feminist theory. , Women--Political activity
- ISBN: 9780230583931 、 0230583938
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- 書目註:How are global institutions gendered? Do they play a role in continuing global inequality? Can anything be done to change them? In the first comprehensive study of global governance from a feminist perspective,this collection gathers together an exemplary line-up of internationally-renowned scholars to provide a theoretically-informed and empirically-based analysis of both the institutions of global governance and the attempts to transform them. Bringing together interdisciplinary and multi-level analyses of global governance within a coherent theoretical framework, this volume demonstrates the diversity and breadth within feminist approaches, including case studies from institutions such as the International Criminal Court and the World Bank, as well as regional organisations, suchas the EU, and covering an array of policy areas including security, trade, agriculture and macroeconomics. This book provides an invaluable addition to the literature on global governance and will beessential reading for all those who study it Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-307) and index
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- 系統號: 005170802 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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.
內容註
Introduction: feminist perspectives on analysing and transforming global governance / Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen -- Analysing globalgovernance / Shirin M. Rai -- Gender and the making ofglobal markets : an exploration of the agricultural sector / Elisabeth Pr癡ugl -- Global governance as neo-liberal governmentality : gender mainstreaming in the European employment strategy / StefanieWoehl -- Governing intimacy in the World Bank / Kate Bedford -- Governing the EU : gender and macroeconomics / Catherine Hoskyns -- Gender mainstreaming and regional trade governance in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) / Jacqui True -- The international criminal court : a new arena for transforming gender justice / Louise Chappell -- Mainstreaming gender in UN security policy : a path to political transformation? / Carol Cohn -- Governing globalization : feminist engagements with international trade policy / Debra J. Liebowitz -- Gender, governance, and globalization at borders : femicide at the US-Mexico border / Kathleen Staudt -- Transforming global governance : challenges and opportunities / Georgina Waylen