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Military Cultures
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 Maneuvers
: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives by
Cynthia Enloe
"Maneuvers" takes readers on a global
tour of the sprawling process called "militarization."
With her incisive verve and moxie, eminent feminist Cynthia Enloe
shows that the people who become militarized are not just the
obvious ones--executives and factory floor workers who make
fighter planes, land mines, and intercontinental missiles. They
are also the employees of food companies, toy companies, clothing
companies, film studios, stock brokerages, and advertising
agencies. Militarization is never gender-neutral, Enloe claims: it
is a personal and political transformation that relies on ideas
about femininity and masculinity. Films that equate action with
war, condoms that are designed with a camouflage pattern, fashions
that celebrate brass buttons and epaulettes, tomato soup that
contains pasta shaped like Star Wars weapons--all of these
contribute to militaristic values that mold our culture in both
war and peace.
Presenting new and groundbreaking material that
builds on Enloes acclaimed work in Does Khaki Become You? and
Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, Maneuvers takes an international look
at the politics of masculinity, nationalism, and globalization.
Enloe ranges widely from Japan to Korea, Serbia, Kosovo, Rwanda,
Britain, Israel, the United States, and many points in between.
She covers a broad variety of subjects: gays in the military, the
history of "campfollowers," the politics of women who
have sexually serviced male soldiers, married life in the
military, military nurses, and the recruitment of women into the
military. One chapter titled "When Soldiers Rape"
explores the many facets of the issue in countries such as Chile,
the Philippines, Okinawa, Rwanda, and the United States.
Enloe outlines the dilemmas feminists around the
globe face in trying to craft theories and strategies that support
militarized women, locally and internationally, without
unwittingly being militarized themselves. She explores the
complicated militarized experiences of women as prostitutes, as
rape victims, as mothers, as wives, as nurses, and as feminist
activists, and she uncovers the "maneuvers" that
military officials and their civilian supporters have made in
order to ensure that each of these groups of women feel special
and separate.
About
the Author
Cynthia Enloe is Professor of Government at Clark
University and author of The
Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War
(California, 1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist
Sense of International Politics (California, 1990) and Does
Khaki Become You? (1988)
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Steven Zeeland is author of Military
Trade, The
Masculine Marine, and other
books. His Website highlights his interest in the
military, the construction of gay/straight military identity, with
excerpts from his work.
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School. This Database is one of several digital law projects
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Internet to assist students, teachers and practitioners of law.
The Don't Database contains primary materials on the U.S.
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present, as identified by Professor Janet E. Halley's book, Don't
: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy
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service members' proceedings (from hearing board transcripts to
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offices of the Executive branch; and advocacy documents submitted
to government entities.
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