Globalization and Militarism : Feminists Make the Link
ISBN: 9780742541122 | 0742541126
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pub. Date: 2/15/2007
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Written by one of the world's leading feminist scholars, this masterful and provocative book takes seriously women's desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men's fears of being feminized as a strategy to explain how militarism is being globalizedand thus what it will take to roll back militarized societies and assumptions. Through explorations of how governments think so narrowly about national security, of how post-war reconstruction efforts have marginalized women, of how ideas about feminization were used to humiliate male prisoners in Abu... MORE
| Preface | p. ix |
| Crafting a Global "Feminist Curiosity" to Make Sense of Globalized Militarism: Tallying Impacts, Exposing Causes | p. 1 |
| Tracking the Militarized Global Sneaker | p. 19 |
| How Does "National Security" Become Militarized? | p. 39 |
| Paying Close Attention to Women inside Militaries | p. 63 |
| Wielding Masculinity inside Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo: The Globalized Dynamics | p. 93 |
| Demilitariz... MORE | p. 117 |
| The Diverse Lives of Militarized and Demilitarized Women: Globalizing Insights from Local Japanese Places | p. 137 |
| Conclusion: The Global, the Local, and the Personal | p. 157 |
| References | p. 165 |
| Index | p. 175 |
| About the author | p. 187 |
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Cynthia Enloe is research professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Social Change and the Women's Studies Program at Clark University
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