Some further readings & interviews with Cynthia Enloe

Since I know you all can't get enough of her insights, here are a few more things you can read (open source/ online):

Cynthia Enloe on Militarization, Feminism, and the International Politics of Banana Boats

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

"While gender is not part of the core of International Relations as a discipline, it most certainly both structures and is structured by the practice of international politics. Since the 1970s, feminism in IR has stirred up what is normally silenced, back-grounded and relayed to the margins, by starting from the seemingly simple question: ‘where are the women’? For 40 years, Cynthia Enloe has shown that answering this question is not so easy—it requires localizing, unpacking and unsettling much IR takes for granted. In this magnificent Talk, Enloe discusses, amongst others, the politics of textile factory design, how global relations need to be structured for bananas to become normal consumption items in our households, and the contemporary global militarization of our life-worlds."
Read more here.

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Taking women’s lives seriously — an interview with Cynthia Enloe

Stephanie Van Hook
September 13, 2012
"Curiosity, arguably, is the antidote to the passivity in politics. When we question the assumptions of candidates’ platforms, especially with regard to women, and when we learn from movements that take women seriously, we stand to awaken something more active and empowered within ourselves. In Cynthia Enloe’s words, “This makes us smarter”; feminist knowledge is a potent form of power."
Read more here.  

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Combat: The Zone of Women’s Liberation?

January 24, 2013 

"Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s announcement that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on American military women in serving in combat is notable in so far as it represents another step in rolling back masculine privilege in a major U.S. public institution.
But does allowing women equal opportunity to kill in the name of “national security” amount to genuine liberation?
I don’t think so."
Read more here