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1. The Grammar of Politics and Performance

   Edited by Shirin M Rai, Janelle Reinelt

   Series: Interventions

   This volume brings together important work at the interstection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines such as psychology (Freud’s primal ‘scene’), sociology (Goffman’s ‘backstage’), and politics (...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
2. New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy

   Edited by Shirin Rai, Georgina Waylen

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st century. The volume develops further some key areas of research in feminist political economy – understanding economies as...

   To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament

   Edited by Shirin M. Rai

   Series: Library of Legislative Studies

   Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament breaks new ground in the study of legislatures. It combines mainstream historical and social science approaches with cultural theory to consider how parliamentary ritual is constructed through ceremony, space and socialisation. The focus is on the...

   Published February 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. Rethinking Empowerment

   Gender and Development in a Global/Local World

   Edited by Jane L. Parpart, Shirin M. Rai, Kathleen A. Staudt

   Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

   Rethinking Empowerment looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and calls for a new approach to empowerment. An approach that adopts a more nuanced, feminist interpretation of power and em(power)ment, recognises that local empowerment is always embedded in regional, national and...

   Published July 24th 2002 by Routledge
5. Civil Society

   Democratic Perspectives

   Edited by Robert Fine, Shirin Rai

   This volume examines the idea of civil society in its historical and contemporary dimensions. It provides a comprehensive and critical mapping of the idea, the burden of expectation that it has carried, and the intellectual and political dimensions that surround it....

   Published July 31st 1997 by Routledge
6. Women And The State

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Shirin M. Rai Manchester Metropolitan University; Geraldine Lievesley Warwick University.

   First published in 1996...

   Published March 28th 1996 by Taylor & Francis
7. Women in the Face of Change

   Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China

   Edited by Annie Phizacklea, Hilary Pilkington, Shirin Rai

   First published in 1992...

   Published September 30th 1992 by Routledge