the international politics of militarizing women's lives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Enloe, Cynthia
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B1422 - B
- Thesaurus
- oorlog en vrede, politiek, homoseksualiteit, racisme, seksueel geweld, militaire beroepen, prostitutie
- Description
- The author 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 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 'camp followers', 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. She explores the complicated militarized experiences of women as prostitutes, as rape victims, as mothers, as wives, as nurses, and as feminist activists.