Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

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Bananas Beaches and Bases reinforces the fact that masculinity has been used to create a patriarchal system, leading to male dominance over women. National militarization benefited men and oppressed women who were seeking to change the patriarchal structure in place. Her sustained and deeply political engagement with women from all walks of life—all over the world—makes us genuinely smarter about global politics.

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The Susan Strange Award, International Studies Association, for "a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and organizational complacency in the international studies community during the previous year. Listening carefully and not afraid to admit surprise, Enloe weaves a tapestry of stories that reveal the workings of power from the personal to the political and back. They are treated by most political commentators as if they were no more interesting than the standard-issue furniture. Furthermore, as tourism demonstrates, companies and their government allies are marketing things not usually thought of as consumer goods: tropical beaches, women’s sexuality, the services of flight attendants.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. Women who are pushed to the far margin of any power system continue to assess and strategize even with the minimal resources they have available; sometimes they move beyond private strategizing to collective organizing. After completing her undergraduate education at Connecticut College in 1960, she went on to earn an M. Enloe makes very clear that there is still an immense need for the study of masculinity in international relations and political economy.

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Female domestic workers continue to have the responsibility of providing for family abroad while facing increasingly strict immigration laws and restrictions from the International Monetary Fund. Starting with these noted sources, readers can launch their own investigations into American soldiers’ uses of brothels in postinvasion France, into the difficult choices that migrant domestic workers are making, into where women are in today’s global trade in fruit. Bananas Beaches and Bases [13] conveys the issues that feminist movements face because of nationalism and socially instilled masculinity after years of Western colonialism.Unlike Enloe's previous books, Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War (2010) looks at how war itself is a cataclysm that disrupts countless lives. In my view, it is the essential text not only for feminist International Politics courses but for anyone interested in starting to understand just how International Politics really works.