Gender and Governance

“States are where the power lies,” and “power is gendered,” With these simple statements, Lisa D. Brush turns a gendered lens on states, power, and governance, showing the inherent inequalities in political systems and gender systems and how they intersect. Her gender lens allows a clear assessment of the different effects state power and social policies have on men and women, highlighting both difference and dominance in the governance of gender. She then turns her eye on the way that state power supports male dominance, the gender of governance. Her nuanced arguments, supported by cases from the United States and other Western political systems, will make this book a useful antidote to traditional textbooks on government, the state, politics, and social policy.