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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."
- Kahlil Gibran
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| | Bananas, Beaches and Bases:
Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
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ZIN Product Number: 10140763
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 Format: Paperback, 263 pages
Edition: UPDATED
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520229126
Release Date: Jan 4, 1990
| |  | | | In Brief
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes-governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil-and shows that the real landscape is not exclusively male. She 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. In exposing policymakers' reliance on false notions of "femininity" and "masculinity," Enloe dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system, revealing it to be much more fragile and open to change than we think.
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"I have no hesitation in describing Bananas, Beaches and Bases as the most significant book in contemporary feminist International Politics. Each time I re-visit it, I am taken aback by its profound implications for both feminism and International Politics. The deceptively provocative question at its core-'where are the women?'-irrevocably transforms our views about what the central and important landscape of global politics is. 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."-Marysia Zalewski, author of Feminism After Postmodernism: Theorising Through Practice
"A new edition of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases is cause for cosmic good cheer. This trailblazing treatment of the gender politics of global market and military projects is a feminist classic. Always ahead of the curve, before globalization had achieved cache in academic circles Enloe was there, cajoling Western feminists out of our political parochialism. There is no more creative, insightful, engaging feminist guide to international politics. Cynthia Enloe is an international feminist treasure, and Bananas, Beaches, and Bases her signature work."-Judith Stacey, author of Brave New Families
"Bananas, Beaches, and Bases is both a 'Pandora's Box' and a roadmap: It unleashes questions and insights that many conventional students of International Politics are accustomed to ignoring or overlooking about the dynamic between gender and international political life, and it guides us to see how both are mutually constitutive. As the "magna carta" of Feminist International Relations,it has helped create a new generation of women and men in the world of international relations."-Katharine Moon, author of Sex Among Allies
"Cynthia Enloe writes with passion, conviction, intelligence and verve as she makes such good feminist sense of international politics that the world never looks quite the same again. Innovative and a great read, Bananas, Beaches and Bases continues to be an outstanding example of the difference gender makes in social analysis. This is a book which provokes discussion with students, colleagues, friends and family. It is a book which has set the standard form much that followed. A classic."-Diane Bell, author of Ngarrindjeri Wurrurwarrin: A World That Is, Was, and Will Be
"With this volume, Cynthia Enloe single-handedly carved out a major new field. Combining contemporary political insight and historical sensitivity, Bananas, Beaches and Bases revealed the gendered workings of high politics, without which the entire machinery of war, diplomacy and governance would have long since collapsed. A pioneering tour-de-force."-Philippa Levine, author of Victorian Feminism, 1850-1900
"Written in scintillating and lucid prose, this is that rare combination, an eminently readable and eminently erudite book. Enloe takes on topics usually flicked aside as too trivial for foreign policy debate-the sex tourism industry; fashions for colonial nostalgia; the lives of base women and diplomatic wives; the politics of food. . . . She shows how the male-order world of international politics could not survive a day without its structures of gender." (Women's Review of Books)
Author Biography: Cynthia Enloe is Professor of Government at Clark University and author of Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (California, 2000), The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (California, 1993), and Does Khaki Become You? (1988).
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| | | |  | | | | Illustrations | ix | | Preface to the 2000 edition | xi | | Preface to the 1989 edition | xvii | | 1 | Gender Makes the World Go Round | 1 | | Where are the women? Clues from the Iran/Contra affair | | | Masculinity and international politics | | | Beyond the global victim | | | 2 | On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism | 19 | | Foot-loose and gendered | | | Femininity in a world of progress | | | Package tours for the respectable woman | | | The tourism formula for development | | | Flight attendants and chambermaids | | | Sex tourism in international politics | | | Conclusion | | | 3 | Nationalism and Masculinity | 42 | | Gendered colonialism | | | Hollywood and colonial nostalgia | | | Nationalism and the veil | | | Patriarchy inside the movement | | | The other nostalgia | | | Conclusion | | | 4 | Base Women | 65 | | Race and sex on the unsinkable aircraft carrier | | | Living with the base | | | Greenham and sexuality | | | When bases move | | | Foreign bases in the Third World: is prostitution the issue? | | | AIDS, bases and the 'Pacific Rim' | | | Conclusion | | | 5 | Diplomatic Wives | 93 | | Imperial diplomacy | | | The domestication of diplomacy | | | 'Don't agonize, organize' | | | Wages for (diplomatic) housework | | | Confucian embassy politics | | | Third World diplomatic wives | | | Women as diplomats, men as spouses | | | Women in international organizations | | | Conclusion | | | 6 | Carmen Miranda on My Mind: International Politics of the Banana | 124 | | 'I'm Chiquita Banana and I've come to say' | | | Women in banana republics | | | Women weed, women clean | | | Brothels and bananas | | | Patriarchal land reform | | | Conclusion | | | 7 | Blue Jeans and Bankers | 151 | | The Benetton model | | | The banker and the seamstress | | | Making women's labor cheap | | | 'The light industry girls' | | | An earthquake is only the beginning | | | Conclusion | | | 8 | 'Just Like One of the Family': Domestic Servants in World Politics | 177 | | Nannies, maids and empires | | | Domestic servants and the IMF | | | 'Down big yard': maids and the state | | | Conclusion | | | 9 | Conclusion: The Personal is International | 195 | | Notes | 202 | | Index | 239 |
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