The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide

摘要

In The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide, Valerie M Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen and Perpetua Lynne Nielsen offer an authoritative analysis of how the systematic subordination of women has had a negative impact on individuals and states worldwide, and unpack why such a system has persisted 'from the dawn of history even into the twenty-first century' (p. 1). Drawing from a wealth of quantitative data, they trace the damaging effects of a nearly universal sexual political order built on a foundation of male dominance.