Bananas, Beaches And Bases: Making Feminist Sense Of International Politics (Updated); Author: Enloe, Cynthia; Paperback

Author: Enloe, Cynthia
Updated Edition; Paperback; 21 B&w Illustrations
264 pages
Published: March 2001
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520229126

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.Creative, insightful, engaging feminist guide to international politics. This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. The author demonstrates that many women's seemingly personal strategies - in marriage, in housework, in their ideals of beauty - are, in reality, the stuff of global politics.