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Twelve Feminist Lessons of War draws on firsthand experiences of war from women in places as diverse as Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Algeria, Syria, and Northern Ireland to show how women's wars are not men's wars. With her engaging trademark style, Cynthia Enloe demonstrates how patriarchy and militarism have embedded themselves in our institutions and our personal lives. Enloe reveals how the social and political influences that shape war-from military recruitment and economic collapse to sexual assault and reproductive rights (and their denial)-are deeply gendered and pervade women's lives before, during, and in the aftermath of war. Her razor-sharp analysis, at once accessible and provocative, highlights how women's emotional and physical labor is used to support government policies and how women's rights activists-against all odds-remain committed in the midst of armed violence. Twelve Feminist Lessons of War is the gritty and grounded book we need to understand what is happening to our world.

"For over a century and in scores of countries, patriarchal presumptions and practices have been challenged by women and their male allies. "Sexual harassment" has entered common parlance; police departments are equipped with rape kits; more than half of the national legislators in Bolivia and Rwanda are women; and a woman candidate won the plurality of the popular votes in the 2016 United States presidential election. But have we really reached equality and overthrown a patriarchal point of view? The Big Push exposes how patriarchal ideas and relationships continue to be modernized to this day. Through contemporary cases and reports, renowned political scientist Cynthia Enloe exposes the workings of everyday patriarchy--in how Syrian women civil society activists have been excluded from international peace negotiations; how sexual harassment became institutionally accepted within major news organizations; or in how the UN Secretary General's post has remained a masculine domain. Enloe then lays out strategies and skills for challenging patriarchal attitudes and operations. Encouraging self-reflection, she guides us in the discomforting curiosity of reviewing our own personal complicity in sustaining patriarchy in order to withdraw our own support for it. Timely and globally conscious, The Big Push is a call for feminist self-reflection and strategic action with a belief that exposure complements resistance."--Provided by publisher

On Charles Homer Haskins -- Haskins prize lecturers -- Brief biography of Cynthia Enloe -- Introduction / by Pauline Yu -- A life of learning / by Cynthia Enloe

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Chapter one. Gender Makes the World Go Round -- Chapter two. Lady Travelers, Beauty Queens, Stewardesses, and Chambermaids -- Chapter three. Nationalism and Masculinity -- Chapter four. Base Women -- Chapter five. Diplomatic and Undiplomatic Wives -- Chapter six. Going Bananas! -- Chapter seven. Women's Labor is Never Cheap -- Chapter eight. Scrubbing the Globalized Tub -- Chapter nine. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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.

In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label ""serious"" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances-in banks, on the

In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label ""serious"" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances-in banks, on the

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. How Do They Militarize a Can of Soup? -- 2. The Laundress, the Soldier, and the State -- 3. The Prostitute, the Colonel, and the Nationalist -- 4. When Soldiers Rape -- 5. If a Woman Is "Married to the Military," Who Is the Husband? -- 6. Nursing the Military: The Imperfect Management of Respectability -- 7. Filling the Ranks: Militarizing Women as Mothers, Soldiers, Feminists, and Fashion Designers -- Conclusion: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index