Gender and Governance

States are where the power lies and power is gendered. With these simple statements, Lisa 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 in which state power supports male dominance, the gender of governance. Her nuanced arguments are supported by cases from the American and other western political systems.