Bananas, beaches and bases : making feminist sense of international politics / Cynthia Enloe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity.

Women.

International relations.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 p.)

Edition:

Second edition, completely revised and updated.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California ; Los Angeles, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. With all new and updated chapters, Enloe describes how many women's seemingly personal strategies-in their marriages, in their housework, in their coping with ideals of beauty-are, in reality, the stuff of global politics. Enloe offers a feminist gender analysis of the global politics of both masculinities and femininities, dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system, and reveals that system to be much more fragile and open to change than we think.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Chapter one. Gender Makes the World Go Round

Chapter two. Lady Travelers, Beauty Queens, Stewardesses, and Chambermaids

Chapter three. Nationalism and Masculinity

Chapter four. Base Women

Chapter five. Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Wives

Chapter six. Going Bananas!

Chapter seven. Women's Labor is Never Cheap

Chapter eight. Scrubbing the Globalized Tub

Chapter nine. Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520957282

0520957288

OCLC:

1102796034