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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on the familiar scenes--governments promoting tourism, companies moving their factories overseas, soldiers serving on foreign soil--and shows that the real landscape is not exclusively male. She describes how many women's seemingly...more
Paperback, 263 pages
Published
January 8th 2001
by University of California Press
(first published January 11th 1990)
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I checked out the 2000 updated edition from the library, but other than a really short updated preface, the book is otherwise the same as the first edition, published in 1990. So I recommend just getting the older book if you want to save some money, or if your library doesn't have the new version.
That said, this book doesn't really suffer much from being nearly 20 years old. Although it missed out on a lot of global policy changes in that time: NAFTA, 9/11, etc, I think it gives a great histori...more
That said, this book doesn't really suffer much from being nearly 20 years old. Although it missed out on a lot of global policy changes in that time: NAFTA, 9/11, etc, I think it gives a great histori...more
Sep 20, 2009
nanto
marked it as wishlist-a-k-a-buku-buruan
untuk sebuah textbook, non-mainstream lagi, data buku ini di goodreads cukup menarik. Dari 189 yang memasukan buku ini ke raknya, horoskop (pembintangan maksudnya :p) buku ini tercatat, "5 stars (45), 4 stars (54), 3 stars (24), 2 stars (3), 1 star (0). Rata-rata pembintangannya 4,12. Cukup diminati untuk sebuah textbook yang mengupas dunia internasional dari sisi keperempuanannya.
Recommended to me as a really good introduction to the relationship between the tourism and global development.
"Tourism is not just about escaping work and drizzle; it is about power, increasingly internationalized power."
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5675690/hapless-co...
"Tourism is not just about escaping work and drizzle; it is about power, increasingly internationalized power."
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5675690/hapless-co...
it seems pretty essential, and overlooked, to consider the fact that the politics of gender are on the minds of those whose goal it is to keep a docile, productive labor force, a loyal defense force, a vain, insecure, and self-indulgent consumer base, etc. Should soldiers stationed on overseas army bases be allowed to marry? should they have access to native prostitutes just outside the bases gates? how does one justify paying young women less than men for performing identical work? what does it...more
A seminal text, but it shows its age two decades on. Still, some ideas remain crucial, in particular that any international relationship can't be fully explored without asking "Where are the women?" Very readable.
I don't think I read this updated version. Certainly check this out, especially you U.S. citizens as the U.S. has over 160 military bases around the world. Do you want to know what happens around them? How they negatively effect communities, women, and social communities even when there is no war or occupation?
Do you want to know how not calculating women's unpaid labor skews the economic picture painted by those financial and governmental institutions? There is an awful lot of information in...more
Do you want to know how not calculating women's unpaid labor skews the economic picture painted by those financial and governmental institutions? There is an awful lot of information in...more
I am halfway through this book and really enjoying it. A little disappointed in fact that I didn't read it sooner - like in the beginning or middle of an IR masters program as opposed to two months post complete.... seems like a great constructivism 101 read...
The books info is clearly 20 years old but the message and a lot of the issues remain unchanged. I do however wish the author would update to another edition since her 2001 edition just missed 9/11 and its repercussions. I'll have to check...more
The books info is clearly 20 years old but the message and a lot of the issues remain unchanged. I do however wish the author would update to another edition since her 2001 edition just missed 9/11 and its repercussions. I'll have to check...more
I came to this book thinking I'd find my intuitive understanding of this topic mirrored with careful evaluations and methodical context. But the tone so turned me off that I couldn't finish it. I wanted to follow Enloe and I believe many of her conclusions about how women's roles have been sidelined in discussions of international politics, but the scattershot and assumptive way she arrives there is unconvincing and frustrating.
Only read one chapter, "Nationalism and Masculinity", but it was really good and I hope to read the rest of the book at some point. The part I read basically overviews both imperialism and national liberation movements in relation to the experiences and struggles of women.
The class in which I read this was the best class I ever took in my life, so far. The class in general, but this book was part of it, really opened up my eyes to the gender of the international economy.
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Excellent. Lots of useful and enlightening information on the otherwise invisible women in international politics.
"We are people, we are women. Never are we subdued. never do we feel self-pity."
"We are people, we are women. Never are we subdued. never do we feel self-pity."
Analysis of Women's role in globalization and international politics. FYI: Bananas represents the united fruit company, Beaches represents tourism, and Bases represents the military.
Read this book in college too. I was amazed at how much about the world I didn't know. Cynthia Enloe's book is a masterpiece and one that any political scientist should read.
Jun 14, 2007
sawyer
marked it as shelved-unfinished
i read a bunch of this for a class but never finished the rest. i remember liking the perspective on particular topics, like the banana industry.
well like it says:"making feminist sense of international politics"-my second (of three) favourite textbook during college
Love dis jawn. Of Woman Born and this book are the types of things I'd like to write if I ever do decide to pursue academia.
Great book! Situates women, images of women and the feminist struggle in the past two centuries of international politics
Great book on international politics...I read it during college and really thought it was interesting...
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics by Cynthia Enloe (1990)
taught me what great feminist scholarship can look like.
Only read sections assigned... want to read again.
This one was an eye opener the first time I read it.
A must-read.
May 17, 2013
Rishita Apsani
marked it as to-read
May 12, 2013
Adina West
marked it as to-read
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