Forthcoming

'Analysing and Transforming Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives' (eds.) Shirin M. Rai and Georgina Waylen (forthcoming)

2005

Hoskyns, C., and Rai, S., 'Gendering International Political Economy', CSGR Working Paper 170/05, May 2005

2003

Mainstreaming Gender, Democratising the State? Institutional Mechanisms for the advancement of women 2003, Published for and on behalf of the United Nations, Manchester University Press

‘Networking Across Borders: South Asian Research Network (SARN) on Gender, Law and Governance’, (2003) Global Networks Vol. 3 No. 1 pp. 59-74

‘Knowledge and/as Power: Feminist Critiques of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights’ (with Sharmistha Barwa), submitted to Gender, Technology and Development, Vol. 7.No.1 (2003)

2002

Gender and Political Economy of Development: From Nationalism to Globalisation, Polity Press, 2002, pp. 264, ISBN 0-7456-1491-4

Globalisation and the Challenge of Development (co-ed. Peter Newell and Andrew Scott) IT Publishers, London, 2002

Rethinking Empowerment: Gender and Development in a Global/Local World (co-ed. with Jane Parpart and Kathleen Staudt) Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-415-27769-8, 2002

‘The National Commission for Women: The Indian Experience’ 2002, in UN Division for the Advancement of Women (ed.) National Machineries for the Advancement of Women: Mainstreaming Gender, Democratising the State? Manchester, Manchester University Press pp. 223-242, ISBN 0 7190 5978 X

‘Democratisation: Feminist Perspectives’ 2002, in Peter Burnell (ed.) Democratisation Through the Looking Glass, Manchester, Manchester University Press

‘The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights: A Gender Perspective’ (with Sharmishta Barwa) 2002, in Peter Newell, Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott (eds.) Development and the Challenge of Globalisation pp 41-56. ISBN 1 85339 492 0

‘Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women: Mainstreaming Gender, Democratising the State?’ 2002, in UN Division for the Advancement of Women (ed.) National Machineries for the Advancement of Women: Mainstreaming Gender, Democratising the State? Manchester, Manchester University Press pp. 15-39 ISBN 0 7190 5978 X

‘Gender and Political Representation’ 2002 in Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter (eds.) The Companion to Development Studies, London, Arnold ISBN 0 340 76051 6 (pbk) pp. 356-360

‘Development and the Challenge of Globalisation’(with Peter Newell and Andrew Scott), 2002, in Peter Newell, Shirin M. Rai and Andrew Scott (eds.) Development and the Challenge of Globalisation pp 1-26

2001

'Gender, Globalisation and Women's Activism: Critical Engagements', 2001 (1) Law, Social Justice and Global Development (LGD), http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/global/issue/2001-1/rai.html

 

‘Protesting World Trade Rules: Can We Talk about Empowerment?’ (Conversation with Kathleen Staudt and Jane Parpart), Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2001, Vol. 26, No. 4 pp. 1251-1257

2000

Global Social Movements, (co-ed.with Robin Cohen) April 2000, Althone Press (UK) and Transaction Press (USA), ISBN 0 485 00419 4, 0 485 00615 4 (pbk)

International Perspectives on Gender and Democratisation (ed.) April 2000, Basingstoke, Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-75004-7, 0-333-75005-5 (pbk)

‘Global Social Movements’ (with Robin Cohen), in R. Cohen and S.Rai (eds.) Global Social Movements, 2000 ISBN 0 485 00419 4, 0 485 00615 4 (pbk) pp. 1-17

‘Democratising the Indian Parliament: the ‘Reservation for Women’ Debate’ in

S.Rai, (ed.) International Perspectives on Gender and Democratisation, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 0-333-75004-7, 0-333-75005-5 (pbk) pp. 149-165

[Translated into Hindi : 2001, Naarivadi Rajniti: Sunghursh aiynv Mudde (eds.) Sadhna Arya, Nivedita Menon, Jini Lokneeta, University of Delhi Press, pp. 335-372]

‘Politics and the State: Overview’ in Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women’s Studies, New York, Routledge, ISBN 0 415 92091 4, pp. 1569-1573

1999

'Developing Explanations for Difference(s): Gender and Village Level Democracy in India and China' in New Political Economy, Vol, 4 No.2 1999 pp.233-249

'Democratic Institutions, Political Representation and Women’s Empowerment: The Quota Debate in India' Democratization 1999, Vol.6, No.3; pp. 84-99

'Globalisation, Fragmentation and the State' 1999, in H. Afshar and S. Barrientos, (ed.) Globalisation and Fragmentation, Basingstoke, Macmillan, ISBN 0 333 73927 2, pp. 18-37

1998

'Gender, Class and Representation: India and the European Union' (co-authored with C. Hoskyns), European Journal of Women's Studies, November 1998, Vol. 5 pp. 345-365.

'Feminism, Imperialism and Orientalism: the Challenge of the 'Indian Woman'' (co-authored with Joana Liddle), Women’s History Review, Vol. 7. No. 4, 1998, pp. 495-520.

'Women in the Indian Parliament' 1998, in A. Karam (ed.) Women in Parliament: Beyond Numbers, Stockholm, IDEA, ISBN 91-89098-19-6, ISSN 1402-6759, pp. 115-124

1997

Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives (co-edited with Robert Fine), 1997, Frank Cass, London, pp. 172; ISBN 0 7146 4313 0 (pbk)

'Crossing Boundaries: Women's North-South Cooperation Seminar - A Report', Journal of Gender Studies, Vol 6, No. 1, March 1997, pp.63-70.

'Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives' (co-editor) Special Issue of Democratisation, Volume 4, No 1, Spring 1997

'Women in the Indian Parliament' 1997, in A.M.Goetz (ed.) Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development, London, Zed Press, ISBN 1 85649 525 6, 1 85649 526 4 (pbk) pp. 104-122