Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Language: English
Pages: 496
ISBN: 0520279999
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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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progress, and world’s fairs The idea that the world is out there for the taking by ordinary citizens as well as adventurers emerged alongside the growth of tourism as an industry. Long before Disney opened its Epcot world theme park in Florida in 1982, world’s fairs, together with museums and travel lectures, nourished this idea. Without leaving her own country, the world’s-fair-goer could experience remote corners of the world, choosing to “visit” the Philippines, Alaska, Japan, or Hawaii. It is
To the north, politicians of the ruling Scottish National Party were pressing London to allow Scottish citizens to vote for Scotland’s independence from the United Kingdom. Scottish National Party leaders assured Scots than an independent Scotland would keep its membership in the thirty-five-member European Union, though EU officials in Brussels warned that an independent Scotland would have to apply for EU membership. That uncertainty gave some Scottish proindependence voters pause. Across the
enforce their vision. Many people, nonetheless, who have embraced nationalism have been suspicious of the big-umbrella vision of the nation. Instead, they have opted for a “purer” nation, a tightly “wrapped umbrella” sort of nation. In this alternative, narrower vision, national strength is believed to flow from social and cultural homogeneity. Which vision— the big umbrella or the wrapped umbrella—of nationalism any woman supports or simply has to cope with in her life will have an effect on her
U.S. male military personnel. Some lived on overseas bases. Many lived on or near U.S. domestic bases. By the early twenty-first century, the U.S. military had become the most married force in the country’s history: 58.7 percent of active-duty military personnel were married. The army had the highest proportion of married personnel; the marines the lowest. Of all heterosexual spouses of U.S. active-duty personnel, only 6.3 percent were men; 93.7 percent were women.32 As the Pentagon tried to adapt
children born of American military fathers and Filipino civilian mothers. Of the approximately 30,000 children who were born of Filipino mothers and American fathers each year during the 1970s and 1980s, these activist researchers found, some 10,000 were thought to have become street children, many of them working as prostitutes servicing American male pedophiles. Unlike children born of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers during the U.S. war in Vietnam—when prostitution was rampant—the U.S.
