The woman tourist and the chambermaid; the schoolteacher and her students; the film star, her studio owners, the banana company executives, the American housewife, and contemporary YouTube enthusiasts; the male soldier, the brothel owner, and the woman working as a prostitute-all are dancing an intricate international minuet. Those who look closely at the gendered causes and the gendered consequences of that minuet are conducting a feminist investigation of today's international political system. Cohn Carol, Enloe Cynthia (2003). "A Conversation with Cynthia Enloe: Feminists Look at Masculinity and the Men Who Wage War". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 28 (4): 1187–107. doi: 10.1086/368326. S2CID 145710099. So when I say that one thing that doing this latest digging has led me to conclude is that patriarchy is remarkably adaptable, I do not want to imply that it’s the same old, same old. Quite the contrary. Making patriarchy sustainable has, I think, taken a lot of thinking and maneuvering by those who have a vested interest in privileging particular forms of masculinity to appear modern and even cutting edge while simultaneously keeping most women in their subordinate places. They have not used only intimidation and outright coercion—though certainly some of those who feel endangered by challenges to patriarchy have wielded both. They have also used updated language ( our sons and daughters in uniform), the arts of tokenism (two women in a cabinet of twenty), and the practices of cooptation (consumers offered low-cost clothes so they will lose interest in Bangladeshi factory women’s working conditions). To investigate how any patriarchal system’s beneficiaries try to sustain that system of gendered meanings and gendered practices requires not smug world-weariness. It calls for renewed energy, refueled collaborations. Oh, and a readiness to be surprised.

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Multi-Ethnic Politics: The Case of Malaysia, Berkeley Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1970. Contributor, International Relations Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Martin Griffiths, ed., USA: Routledge, 2007 Cynthia Enloe was born in New York City and grew up in Manhasset, Long Island, a New York suburb. Her father was from Missouri and went to medical school in Germany from 1933 to 1936. Her mother went to Mills College and married Cynthia's father upon graduation. [5]

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While you might daydream about becoming a senior foreign policy expert in your country’s diplomatic corps, you may deliberately shy away from thinking about whether you will be able to sustain a relationship with a partner while you pursue this ambition. You try not to think about whether your partner will be willing to cope with both diplomacy’s social demands and the pressures you together will endure living in a proverbial media fishbowl. Cynthia Holden Enloe (born July 16, 1938) is an American political theorist, feminist writer, and professor. [1] [2] She is best known for her work on gender and militarism [3] and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. [4] She has also influenced the field of feminist political geography, with feminist geopolitics in particular.

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I began this book thinking about Pocahontas and ended it mulling over the life of Carmen Miranda. Pocahontas is buried in World’s End cemetery, England. Carmen Miranda has a museum dedicated to her in Rio. Neither is the usual starting point for thoughts about contemporary international politics, but each woman made me think in new ways about just how international politics works.

A political scientist is often a bit intimidated by historians and archivists. But as I pursued my hunches about the light that Pocahontas and Carmen Miranda might shed on international politics, I knew I had to tread on historians’ ground. No one made me feel more at home in this adventure than David Doughan, librarian of the Fawcett Library, that treasure house of surprising information about British and imperial women’s history. Ann Englehart and Barbara Haber both encouraged me to make full use of the splendid resources of Radcliffe College’s Schlesinger Library. Edmund Swinglehurst, of the Thomas Cook Archives in London, opened up the world of tourism history. In addition to my own digging, I was aided by the research skills of my brother, David Enloe, as well as Lauran Schultz, Shari Geistfeld, and Deb Dunn. A new edition of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases is cause for cosmic good cheer. This trailblazing treatment of the gender politics of global market and military projects is a feminist classic. Always ahead of the curve, before globalization had achieved cache in academic circles Enloe was there, cajoling Western feminists out of our political parochialism. There is no more creative, insightful, engaging feminist guide to international politics. Cynthia Enloe is an international feminist treasure, and Bananas, Beaches, and Bases her signature work."—Judith Stacey, author of Brave New Families The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1993 (published in Japanese, 1999); new ed. Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 2000 (published in Turkish, 2003). All the women and men who have tried to make us genuinely smarter about international politics have revealed that what is international is far broader than mainstream experts assume, and that what is political reaches well beyond the public square. Sometimes taking these two new understandings on board has made my head spin. But it also has energized me. In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events—Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns—to reveal the crucial role of women in international politics today.

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Activists of the International Domestic Workers Network lobbying in Geneva, 2011 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938- . Papers, 1977-1984: A Finding Aid". Harvard University Library - Online Archival Search Information System (OASIS). Archived from the original on April 3, 2017 . Retrieved June 3, 2014. A new edition of Bananas, Beaches and Bases is cause for cosmic good cheer. This trailblazing treatment of the gender politics of global market and military projects is a feminist classic. Always ahead of the curve, before globalization had achieved cache in academic circles, Enloe was there, cajoling Western feminists out of our politicial parochialism. There is no more creative, insightful, engaging feminist guide to international politics." Judith Stacy, author of Brave New Families - from cover

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Most of all, one has to become interested in the actual lives—and thoughts—of complicatedly diverse women. One need not necessarily admire every woman whose life one finds interesting. Feminist attentiveness to all sorts of women is not derived from hero worship. Some women, of course, will turn out to be insightful, innovative, and even courageous. Upon closer examination, other women will prove to be complicit, intolerant, or self-serving. The motivation to take all women’s lives seriously lies deeper than admiration. Asking Where are the women? is motivated by a determination to discover exactly how this world works. One’s feminist-informed digging is fueled by a desire to reveal the ideas, relationships, and policies those (usually unequal) gendered workings rely upon. In Maneuvers; the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives, Enloe expands on her themes from Does Khaki Become You. She emphasizes the different experiences of women located in varied ethnic, national, class, and occupational contexts and how they are tailored to the needs of militarism, therefore embedding themselves in policy. In The American Political Science Review Mary Fainsod Katzenstein writes, "Those already among Enloe's wide readership will know some of this text's central arguments, but Maneuvers offers a trove of new insights. A thesis even more powerfully developed here than in Enloe's earlier writings is the title of the book—how policymakers maneuver to make strategic choices." Katzenstein later states, " Maneuvers has more than a functionalist lesson; by emphasizing policy choices and variability across time and national context, Enloe shows that militaries are not governed by primeval identities." [29] Honors and recognition [ edit ] Enloe, Cynthia. 2004. The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in The New Age of Empire. London: University of California Press, p. 158.

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Runyan, Anne Sisson (1991). "Reviewed work: The International Politics of Agricultural Trade: Canadian-American Relations in a Global Agricultural Context, Theodore H. Cohn". The American Political Science Review. 85 (1): 333–335. doi: 10.2307/1962954. JSTOR 1962954. S2CID 210663775. a b Enloe, Cynthia; Lacey, Anita; Gregory, Thomas (2016). "Twenty-five years of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: A conversation with Cynthia Enloe". Journal of Sociology. 52 (3): 537–550. doi: 10.1177/1440783316655635. S2CID 151463187.By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services Coauthor (with Guy Pauker and Frank Golay), Diversity and Development in Southeast Asia: The Coming Decade, New York: McGraw-Hill and Council of Foreign Relations, 1977. Runyan, A. (1991). "Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics". The American Political Science Review. 85 (1): 333–335. doi: 10.2307/1962955. JSTOR 1962955. S2CID 198598826.