Bananas, Beaches and Bases
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Bananas, Beaches and Bases

Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

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Bananas, Beaches and Bases

Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

About this book

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.

Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780520279995
Edition
2
eBook ISBN
9780520957282
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Social Sciences
1
Perhaps 
you 
have 
never 
imagined 
what 
it 
would 
feel 
like 
if 
you 
were 
a 
woman 
fleeing 
your 
home 
with 
your 
young 
children, 
escaping 
a 
violent 
conflict 
between 
government 
troops 
and 
rebel 
soldiers, 
crossing 
a 
national 
border, 
pitching 
a 
tent 
in 
a 
muddy 
refugee 
camp, 
and 
then 
being 
treated 
by 
aid 
staff
workers 
as 
though 
you 
and 
the 
children 
you 
are 
supporting 
were 
indistin-
guishable, 
“womenandchildren.”
Maybe, 
if 
any 
of 
your 
aunts 
or 
grandmothers 
have 
told 
you 
stories 
about 
having 
worked 
as 
domestic 
servants, 
you 
can 
more 
easily 
picture 
what 
your 
daily 
life 
would 
be 
like 
if 
you 
had 
left 
your 
home 
country 
to 
take 
a 
live-in 
job 
caring 
for 
someone 
else’s 
little 
children 
or 
their 
aging 
parents. 
You 
can 
almost 
imagine 
the 
emotions 
you 
would 
feel 
if 
you 
were 
to 
Skype 
across 
time 
zones 
to 
your 
own 
children 
every 
week, 
but 
you 
cannot 
be 
sure 
how 
you 
would 
react 
when 
your 
employer 
insisted 
upon 
taking 
possession 
of 
your 
passport.
It 
probably 
feels 
like 
a 
stretch 
to 
see 
yourself 
working 
in 
a 
disco 
outside 
a 
foreign 
military 
base. 
It 
is 
hard 
to 
think 
about 
chapter 
one
Gender 
Makes 
the 
World 
Go 
Round
Where 
Are 
the 
Women?

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Bananas, Beaches and Bases
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Illustrations
  8. Preface to the Second Edition
  9. Preface to the First Edition
  10. 1. Gender Makes the World Go Round: Where Are the Women?
  11. 2. Lady Travelers, Beauty Queens, Stewardesses, and Chamber Maids: The International Gendered Politics of Tourism
  12. 3. Nationalism and Masculinity: The Nationalist Story Is Not Over—and It Is Not a Simple Story
  13. 4. Base Women
  14. 5. Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Wives
  15. 6. Going Bananas! Where Are Women in the International Politics of Bananas?
  16. 7. Women’s Labor Is Never Cheap: Gendering Global Blue Jeans and Bankers
  17. 8. Scrubbing the Globalized Tub: Domestic Servants in World Politics
  18. Conclusion: The Personal Is International; the International Is Personal
  19. Notes
  20. Index

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