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Title
Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture
Abstract
When I entered Queen’s Park, the provincial legislature in Ontario, Canada, I sought to uncover, contextualize, and analyze what political workers do and why, in order to better understand the production of government. Not long after I started fieldwork, during an informal discussion but one that took place in the mythically sacrosanct space of the legislative chamber, a young male Conservative staffer encouraged a Liberal counterpart to decorate his new motorcycle helmet with a sticker proclaiming “Show me your tits, bitch!” This sort of misogyny, in combination with more subtle daily examples of andro-centrism, made it clear that gender and, in particular, variants of hegemonic masculinity were central to the production of government and what political workers do and why. I learned very quickly that I would need to grapple with the relationships between patriarchy and political labor in order to thoroughly understand government.
Book Title
Governing Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government
Edition
1st edition
Place
New York
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Date
2012
Pages
137-57
Language
English
ISBN
978-1-137-00921-0
URL
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304789901_Gendering_Government
Extra
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137009227 OCLC: 781432429
Notes

Contents: Government matters: Intellectual labor and the work of governing / Kendra Coulter and William R. Schumann -- Navigating the illegible state: The political labor of government in Mexico / Tara A. Schwegler -- A project of governing and its contradictions: Maternal-infant care in highland Ecuador / A. Kim Clark -- Governing beef: Program implementation, unintended consequences, and BSE control in Alberta / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- Selling clear red water: The identity politics of governing in the National Assembly for Wales / William R. Schumann -- Legislative authenticity and the politics of recognition: Being a Māori member of the New Zealand parliament / Ilana Gershon -- Gendering government: Political labor and the production of policy and political culture / Kendra Coulter -- The work of being governed: From the welfare state to the "big society" in Britain / Susan Brin Hyatt -- The will to end hunger in the age of security: Food security, national security and community-based food security in the United States / David V. Fazzino II -- The work of governing / John Clarke.

Citation
Coulter, K. (2012). Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture. In K. Coulter & W. R. Schumann (Eds.), Governing Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government (1st edition, pp. 137–157). Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304789901_Gendering_Government
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