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A review essay on books by (1) Aprodev, HelpAge International, One World Action, Women Development Europe, Transforming the Mainstream: Seminar Report on Mainstreaming and Inclusive Approaches in EU Development Cooperation (Brussels: WIDE, 2004); (2) Debbie Budlender & Guy Hewitt, Engendering Budgets: A Practitioners' Guide to Understanding and Implementing Gender-Responsive Budgets (London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003); (3) Marilyn Carr (Ed), Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers and Workers with Global Markets (London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004); (5) Naila Kabeer, Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals: A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders (London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003); (6) Genevieve Painter, Gender Mainstreaming in Development and Trade Policy and Practice: Learning from Austria, Belgium and the UK (Brussels: WIDE, 2004); & (7) Mariama Williams, Gender Mainstreaming in the Multilateral Trading System: A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders (London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003).

This article takes a concern with gender as the starting point for looking at some of the political processes and structures that have grown up within the European Community. Such an approach reveals new contours to the EC system and throws a fresh light on features hitherto regarded as 'normal'. Though the focus is on the EC, it is argued that the results of an analysis of this kind have a wider significance. Thus the article is intended as a contribution to the growing engagement between 'women's politics' in its broadest sense and the theory and practice of international relations.