Bananas, beaches and bases
Subtitle: making feminist sense of international politics
By: Cynthia Enloe
Edition: Second edition, completely revised and updated.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9780520279995
Subjects: Feminist theory; International relations; Women in politics
Description: "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 it to be much more fragile and open to change than we think"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender makes the world go round : where are the women?; title: Lady travelers, beauty queens, stewardesses, and chamber maids : the international gendered politics of tourism; title: Nationalism and masculinity : the nationalist story is not over-and it is not a simple story; title: Base women; title: Diplomatic and undiplomatic wives; title: Going bananas! Where are women in the international politics of bananas?; title: Women's labor is never cheap : gendering global blue jeans and bankers; title: Scrubbing the globalized tub : domestic servants in world politics; title: Conclusion. The personal is international; the international is personal.