Her current research focuses on gender in European agricultural policy and gender mainstreaming in international organizations. Selected publications include The Global Construction of Gender: Home-based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century (Columbia University Press 1999), ‘Feminism and Constructivism: Worlds Apart or Sharing the Middle Ground?’ with Birgit Locher in International Studies Quarterly (March 2001), and ‘Does Gender Mainstreaming Work? Feminist Engagements with the German Agricultural State’ in International Feminist Journal of Politics (forthcoming).