Cynthia Enloe is een feministische geleerde, bekend om haar baanbrekende werk dat de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen gender en militarisme onderzoekt. Haar bijdragen hebben het veld van feministische internationale betrekkingen gevormd en bieden baanbrekende inzichten in internationale politiek en politieke economie. Beïnvloed door etnografische benaderingen, duikt Enloe's schrijven in hoe mondiale structuren worden gevormd door genderongelijkheden. Haar onderscheidende stem en academische inzicht bieden lezers een essentiële lens om de wereld te begrijpen.
With her trademark engaging style, at once accessible and provocative, Cynthia Enloe draws on first-hand experiences of war in countries as diverse as Ukraine, Syria and Northern Ireland to show how women's wars are not men's wars, and why feminist campaigners remain active - against all odds - in the midst of armed violence.
Making Feminist Sense of International Politics [Updated Edition]
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.