Bananas, Beaches and Bases

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Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

By Cynthia Enloe

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In Bananas, Beaches and Bases, Cynthia Enloe offers a radical analysis of globalization through a feminist lens. She explores recent global events—such as Bangladeshi garment factory tragedies, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, and the UN’s gender politics—to reveal the crucial but often overlooked role of women in international politics. Enloe connects personal strategies in marriage, housework, and beauty ideals to broader global political systems, exposing the fragility and openness to change of what seems like an overwhelming world system.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in feminist theory, globalisation, international politics, and gender studies, including students, academics, and activists seeking an insightful and radical perspective on global issues.

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.

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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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Critics praise Enloe's work as clear, complex, and accessible, with Journal of Politics calling it "demystifying" and "insightful." The American Political Science Review highlights its critical departure from traditional top-down international politics, while Signs predicts it will become a widely used text due to its breadth and original connections. The book is recognised as provocatively political, radical, and feminist, contributing profoundly to efforts to re-empower women globally.

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ISBN: 9780520279995

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 May 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Edition: 2nd edition

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 496

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About the Author

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).

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