Publications
Books
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Grammar of Politics and Performance ISBN-13: 978-0415716505 |
Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament |  |
The Gender Politics of Development Zed Books, 2008, pp. 210 ISBN 1842778382 |
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Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 336 |
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Gender and the Political Economy of Development Polity Press, 2002, pp.264 ISBN 0745614914 |
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Chinese Politics and Society: An Introduction (co-author Flemming Christiansen) Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1996 ISBN 013354656X |
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New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy ISBN-13: 978-0415539814 |
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Resistance and Reaction: University Politics in Post-Mao China Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1991, pp. 229+xvii ISBN 0745009034 |
Selected Journal articles
RECENT ARTICLES -
SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis (with Benjamin D. Brown and Kanchana N. Ruwanpura) World Development 113 (2019) 368–380
Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence (with Juanita Elias)
Review of International Studies (2018), Page 1 of 20 doi:10.1017/S0260210518000323
Upendra Baxi: feminism, law, and the human, Jindal Global Law Review, 2018, Volume 9
Number 2, DOI 10.1007/s41020-018-0078-y
The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 25, Issue 1, 1 March 2018, Pages 1–19
Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action (with Beth Goldblatt) Social and Legal Studies November 15, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663917739455 DOI: 10.1177/0964663917739455
'Political Perfomance: A Framework for Analyzing Democratic Politics', Political Studies, doi, 2014
‘Political Aesthetics of the Nation: murals and statues in the Indian Parliament’, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, doi 2013
Depletion: The Cost of Social Reproduction, International Feminist Journal of Politics,16(2), (with C. Hoskyns and D. Thomas) June 2014; doi 2013
Sumi Madhok and Shirin M. Rai, 'Agency, Injury, and Transgressive Politics in Neoliberal Times', Signs, Journal of Women, Culture and Society,
Vol. 37, No. 3 (Spring 2012), pp. 645-669;
Shirin M. Rai, 'The Politics of Access: Narratives of Women MPs in the Indian Parliament' Political Studies, Volume 60, Issue 1, pages 195–212, March 2012
(Co-authored with C Hoskyns.)
Edited books
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New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy eds Shirin M Rai and Georgina Waylen Routledge 2013 pp 240 |
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Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives eds. Shirin Rai & Georgina Waylen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. 336 ISBN 9780230537057 |
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Mainstreaming Gender, Democratising the State? ed. Shirin Rai, Manchester University Press, 2003, pp. 298 ISBN 9780719059780 |
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Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World eds. Jane Parpart, Shirin Rai & Kathleen Staudt, Routledge, 2002, pp. 272 ISBN 0415277698 |
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Development and the Challenge of Globalization eds. Peter Newell, Shirin Rai & Andrew Scott, IT Publishers, 2002, pp. 212 ISBN 1853394920 |
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Global Social Movements eds. Robin Cohen & Shirin Rai, Althone Press (UK)/Transaction Press (USA), 2000, pp. 231 ISBN 0485006154 |
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International Perspectives on Gender and Democratisation ed. Shirin Rai, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000, pp. 220 ISBN 0333750055 |
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Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives eds. Robert Fine & Shirin Rai, Frank Cass, 1997, pp. 172 ISBN 0714643130 |
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Women and the State: International Perspectives eds. Geraldine Lievesley & Shirin Rai, Taylor & Francis, 1996, pp. 192 ISBN 0748403612 |
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Stirring It: Women's Studies in Transition eds. Gabriele Griffin, Marianne Hester, Shirin Rai & Sasha Roseneil, Taylor and Francis, 1994, pp. 231+vi. ISBN 0748402136 |
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Women in the Face of Change: Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China eds. Annie Phizaklea, Hilary Pilkington & Shirin Rai, 1992, pp. 240 ISBN 0415075408 |
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Selected chapters in edited books
Reimagining the state: Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism in Reimagining the State: Theoretical Challenges and Transformative Possibilities (eds.) Davina Cooper, Nikita Dhawan, Janet Newman, Routledge
Gender and Development, 2018, in Juanita Elias and Adriene Roberts eds Handbook of Feminist International Political Economy, London: Edward Elgar
From the Nation-State to Global Governance: A Gendered Analysis
State in India: Reflections on Contemporary Politics – A Reader (ed.) Vidhu Verma New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan
The Dilemmas of Performative Citizenship 2017, in Bishnupriya Dutt Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhala Sahai (eds) Gendered Citizenship, Manifestations and Performance, Palgrave Macmillan
With Catherine Hoskyns, 2016, Social Reproduction, in Handbook on Gender in World Politics Edited by Jill Steans, and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage, London: Edward Elgar pp 394-404
‘Gender and (International) Political Economy’, 2013, Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics (eds.) G. Waylen et. al. Oxford, Oxford University Press
‘The Contexts of International Development’ in The Women, Gender and Development Reader, (ed.) Nalini Vishwanathan et.al. 2011
‘Gender and Development: Theoretical Perspectives’ in The Women, Gender and Development Reader, (ed.) Nalini Vishwanathan et.al., 2011, London: Zed Books
‘The Indian Parliament’ (with Vernon Hewitt), in Niraja Gopal Jayal and Bhanu Pratap Mehta (eds.), 2010, The Oxford Companion to Politics in India
‘Feminizing Global Governance’ in (eds.) Bina D'Costa and Katrina Lee-Koo, 2009, Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific, Basingstoke, Palgrave
‘Introduction: Feminist Perspectives on Analysing and Transforming Global Governance’ (with Georgina Waylen) (50%), Governance’ in Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives (eds. with Georgina Waylen), 2008, Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN-10: 0230537049, ISBN-13: 978-0230537040, pp. 1-18
‘Analysing Global Governance’ in Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives (eds. with Georgina Waylen), 2008, Palgrave Macmillan; ISBN-10: 0230537049, ISBN-13: 978-0230537040, pp. 19-42
‘Dilemmas of Political Participation’ in Sirrku Helsten et.al. (ed.) Women's citizenship and political rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2005
‘Gender and Development’, 2005, in Jeffrey Haynes (ed.) Palgrave Advances in Development Studies, Basingstoke: Palgrave