Rai maps out the major debates on global governance and the feminist critiques of the mainstream interventions in these debates. She argues that the shift from government to governance is a response to the needs of a gendered global capitalist economy and is shaped by struggles against the unfolding consequences of globalization. Rai suggests feminist interrogations of the concept, processes, practices, and mechanisms of governance, and the insights that develop from them should be centrally incorporated into critical revisionist and radical discourses of and against the concept of global governance. She also examines the challenges that the concept of global governance poses for feminist political practice. Rai concludes by suggesting that feminist political practice needs to focus on the politics of redistribution in the context of global governance.
