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Gender and governance / Lisa D. Brush.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brush, Lisa Diane.
- Series:
- Gender lens series
- The gender lens series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences).
- State, The.
- Feminism.
- Civil society--United States.
- Civil society.
- Social policy.
- United States.
- Civil society--Europe, Western.
- United States--Social policy.
- Europe, Western--Social policy.
- Europe, Western.
- Western Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 149 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- 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. She reveals the way in which state power supports male dominance in American and other western political systems. This book a useful antidote to traditional textbooks on government, the state, politics, and social policy.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Gender, States, and Social Policies
- Chapter 1 Where the Power Is 3
- Chapter 2 Governance and Gender 23
- Part 2 Governance through a Gender Lens
- Chapter 3 The Governance of Gender 51
- Chapter 4 The Gender of Governance 73
- Part 3 Toward Feminist Governance
- Chapter 5 Changing the Subject 97
- Chapter 6 Slouching toward Where the Power Is 119.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759101418
- 0759101426
- OCLC:
- 52086046
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