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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Cynthia Enloe
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Description for Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Paperback. Presents a radical analysis of globalization. This title 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. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 29. Weight in Grams: 574.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
283
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520279995
SKU
V9780520279995
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Ref
99-1
About Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe is Professor of Political Science at Clark University and is the author of many books, including Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire. Enloe won the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA).
Reviews for Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
"Enloe's analysis is clear, complex, amusing, demystifying, accessible, and insightful."
Journal of Politics
"Offers a refreshing, insightful, and critical departure from conventional, top-down treatments of international politics."
American Political Science Review
"Its breadth, punchiness, and original linkages guarantee that it will become a widely used text."
Signs
"Enloe’s important book is still provocatively political, shamelessly ... Read more
Journal of Politics
"Offers a refreshing, insightful, and critical departure from conventional, top-down treatments of international politics."
American Political Science Review
"Its breadth, punchiness, and original linkages guarantee that it will become a widely used text."
Signs
"Enloe’s important book is still provocatively political, shamelessly ... Read more