The curious feminist : searching for women in a new age of empire / Cynthia Enloe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enloe, Cynthia H., 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Sex role.

Women and the military.

Women and war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In this collection of lively essays, Cynthia Enloe makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep and personal look into the daily realities in a range of women's lives. She proposes a distinctively feminist curiosity that begins with taking women seriously, especially during this era of unprecedented American influence. This means listening carefully, digging deep, challenging assumptions, and welcoming surprises. Listening to women in Asian sneaker factories, Enloe reveals, enables us to bring down to earth the often abstract discussions of the global economy. Paying close attention to Iraqi women's organizing efforts under military occupation exposes the false global promises made by officials. Enloe also turns the beam of her inquiry inward. In a series of four candid interviews and a new set of autobiographical pieces, she reflects on the gradual development of her own feminist curiosity. Describing her wartime suburban girlhood and her years at Berkeley, she maps the everyday obstacles placed on the path to feminist consciousness-and suggests how those obstacles can be identified and overcome. The Curious Feminist shows how taking women seriously also challenges the common assumption that masculinities are trivial factors in today's international affairs. Enloe explores the workings of masculinity inside organizations as diverse as the American military, a Serbian militia, the UN, and Oxfam. A feminist curiosity finds all women worth thinking about, Enloe claims. She suggests that we pay thoughtful attention to women who appear complicit in violence or in the oppression of others, or too cozily wrapped up in their relative privilege to inspire praise or compassion. Enloe's vitality, passion, and incisive wit illuminate each essay. The Curious Feminist is an original and timely invitation to look at global politics in an entirely different way.

Contents:

The surprised feminist

Margins, silences, and bottom rungs : how to overcome the underestimation of power

In the study of international relations

The globetrotting sneaker

Daughters and generals in the politics of the globalized sneaker

Whom do you take seriously?

Feminist theorizing from bananas to maneuvers : a conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Marysia Zalewski

All the men are in the militias, all the women are victims : the politics of masculinity and femininity in nationalist wars

Spoils of war

Masculinity as a foreign policy issue

What if they gave a war

: a conversation between Cynthia Enloe, Vivian Stromberg, and the editors of Ms. magazine

Sneak attack : the militarization of U.S. culture

War-planners rely on women : thoughts from Tokyo

Feminists keep their eyes on militarized masculinity : wondering how Americans see their male presidents

Becoming a feminist : Cynthia Enloe in conversation with three British international relations scholars

Women after wars : puzzles and warnings from Vietnam

Demilitarization, or more of the same? : feminist questions to ask in the postwar moment

A feminist map of the blocks on the road to institutional accountability

When feminists look at masculinity and the men who wage war : a conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Carol Cohn

Updating the gendered empire : where are the women in occupied Afghanistan and Iraq?

War without white hats

Playing guns

Hitler is a jerk

Leaden soldiers

Gurkhas wear wool

The cigarette.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786612358036

9781282358034

1282358030

9780520938519

0520938518

9781597345675

1597345679

OCLC:

475929580