Download or read book Gender and Governance written by Lisa Diane Brush and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.