Gender Mainstreaming: The Global Governance of women?

Abstract

What are the effects when gender mainstreaming becomes part of the enabling claims of international organizations? In this paper I examine the fit between gender mainstreaming, as a policy and device of transformation, and the calculations of international organizations to produce certain kinds of gendered subjects in the name of good governance. Noting the expansion of audit cultures and notions of accountability within international organizations, I focus on the case of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). I find that gender mainstreaming facilitates FAO efforts to mobilize a new rural woman with increased capacities and responsibilities for attending to global food security, at the same that it supports the organization's deployment of neoliberal techniques for maximizing rural productivity. The consequences for feminist practice of being drawn into the technologies of international rule are examined.

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