· 2014
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
- 2,132citations
- 2014year
Short summary
Cynthia Enloe's radical analysis reveals that women's personal strategies, from marriage to coping with beauty ideals, are fundamental to global politics.
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Key points
- Women's personal strategies (marriage, housework, beauty ideals) are crucial to global politics.
- Analysis includes diverse examples: garment factory deaths, domestic workers, global tourists, UN gender politics.
- Offers a feminist gender analysis of masculinities and femininities in global politics.
- Challenges the perception of the global system as overwhelmingly powerful and unchangeable.
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Abstract
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.
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