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