ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how gender matters in and to global governance, showing how feminist approaches, as heterogeneous and diverse in nature, have engaged with questions of governance, power and the reproduction (and effects) of gendered identity in global politics. Asking how actors and discourses of global governance make certain practices, ideas and policies possible, and how this is gendered, this chapter presents discussion of questions concerning who, or what, decides the where, whether and how of global politics, including how this generates certain outcomes – outcomes that are pervasive in effect and gendered in nature. To do this, the chapter focuses on the relationship among global governance, neoliberalism and gender, how neoliberal governance today can be understood, and perhaps contested, through a gender lens, and, then, what examples can be produced to show how, where and why global governance can be read as gendered.
