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

The First Political Order : : How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide / / Valerie Hudson, Donna Lee Bowen, Perpetua Lynne Nielsen.

Global history records an astonishing variety of forms of social organization. Yet almost universally, males subordinate females. How does the relationship between men and women shape the wider political order? The First Political Order is a groundbreaking demonstration that the persistent and syste...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Hudson, Valerie,
Bowen, Donna Lee,
Nielsen, Perpetua Lynne,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 125 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. THE FIRST POLITICAL ORDER
  • 1. The First Political Order Is the Sexual Political Order
  • 2. The Oldest Security Provision Mechanism
  • 3. Assessing the Patrilineal/Fraternal Syndrome Today
  • PART II. THE EFFECTS OF THE FIRST POLITICAL ORDER
  • 4. The Effects of the Syndrome, Part One: Governance and National Security
  • 5. The Tremors Caused by Obstructed Marriage Markets: A Closer Look
  • 6. The Effects of the Syndrome, Part Two: Human, Economic, and Environmental Security
  • 7. The Effects by the Numbers: The Syndrome and Measures of National Outcome
  • PART III. CHANGE
  • 8. Change: Historical Successes and Failures
  • 9. Conclusion: Contemporary Applications
  • Appendix I: Syndrome Scores for 176 Countries
  • Appendix II: Colonial Heritage Status Sources
  • Appendix III: Testing the Effects: Methods and Extended Results
  • Appendix IV: Dichotomization Cutpoints for Logistic Regression Analysis
  • Appendix V: High-Syndrome-Encoding Nations with Unexpectedly Good National Outcomes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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