Bananas Beaches & Bases Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Enloe, Cynthia

Pandora
Year of publishing: 1989
Place of publishing: London
ISBN: 0044403682
Language: English
Series: first

Tato radikální analýza globalizace odhaluje zásadní roli žen v současné mezinárodní politice. Autorka poodhaluje závěs, aby nám ukázala dobře známé scény – vlády propagující turismus, firmy stěhující se do jiných zemí, vojáci sloužící na cizí půdě – a ukazuje nám, že opravdový obraz není výlučně mužský. Ukazuje, kolik žen a jejich zdánlivě osobních kroků, ať už jde o práci v domácnosti nebo vyrovnávání se s ideály krásy, je ve skutečnosti plodem globální politiky. Tím, že nám autorka dává nahlédnout na falešné pojmy „feminity“ a „maskulinity“, odhaluje, jak tyto světově zavedené systémy jsou křehké a přístupnější změně, než si myslíme.

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 personal strategies-in their marriages, in their housework, in their coping with ideals of beauty-are, in reality, the stuff of global politics. In exposing policymakers' reliance on false notions of "femininity" and "masculinity," Enloe dismantles an apparently overwhelming world system, revealing it to be much more fragile and open to change than we think.

Volumes

ENL_7. (Available)

Keywords

Gender Studies

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