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Title: Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe ISBN: 0-520-22071-4 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The true "feminist agenda"
Comment: Cynthia Enloe is the author most quoted by opponants of women in the armed forces, because she presents the real Feminist viewpoint, which is staunchly anti-war and ambivelant toward the military. Enloe's arguments, supported by N.O.W., are coopted by "anti-feminist" foes of servicewomen as proof of their own contention that women have no place in the military. Paradoxically, after quoting Enloe, those same crusaders then lambast a so-called "feminist lobby" for promoting gender integration in combat operations. No doubt they confuse Feminism with some "politically-correct" positions of Congressional military panels, which are, ironically, often ignored or opposed by N.O.W. But Enloe's books go much further than simply stating Feminism's pacifist ideals. In "Maneuvers", she accuses the military of deliberate victimization of women worldwide. She makes a number of good points concerning the cruelties of war toward civilian women, but her antimilitary bias shows and is sometimes rather venomous. She gives no thought whatsoever to the conditions which make warfare an unpleasant reality and the armed forces a necessity. Nor has she any real concern for American military women or their reasons for wanting to serve. By relating selected incidents of harassment or violence against servicewomen, she presents a negative and mostly false impression of the American military's widespread and willful victimization of its female members. Read "Maneuvers" for the Feminist counter of Brian Mitchell's "Flirting With Disaster", but don't expect balance in the views of either author.
Rating: 4
Summary: Important feminist study on militarisation
Comment: Cynthia Enloe adds to her series of writings looking at the effects of militarisation on women's lives - from the laundresses, camp followers, comfort women and sex workers to feminist military personnel and those who fight the home front.
Like Jan Jindy Pettman's "Worlding Women - a feminist international politics", Enloe's latest book seeks to look at international relations from a gendered perspective - and succeeds admirably.
The author relies a lot on secondary sources (citing a lot of newspaper stories), but weaves together the strands of militarisation on women's lives in a compelling and readable style. The book is full of fascinating anecdotes that illustrate the broader themes of the multifacted impact of contemporary militarisation (I particularly enjoyed the discussion on why British military officers from all services and US Air Force and Navy officers are allowed to carry umbrellas, but they are fobidden as too girlie for the US Marines and US Army! )
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Title: Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Updated Edition with a New Preface by Cynthia Enloe ISBN: 0520229126 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 08 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty ISBN: 0822330210 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Gender and Nation by Nira Yuval-Davis ISBN: 0803986645 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 05 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Women and War Reader by Lois Ann Lorentzen, Jennifer Turpin ISBN: 0814751458 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War by Cynthia Enloe ISBN: 0520083369 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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