Globalization and militarism : feminists make the link /
Cynthia H. Enloe
- New York : Rowman & Littlefield, 2007
- xi, 187 pages ; 24 cm.
- Globalization .
Bibliography: pages 165-174
Crafting a global "feminist curiosity" to make sense of militarism : tallying the impacts, exposing the causes -- Tracking the militarized global sneaker -- How does "national security" become militarized? -- Paying close attention to women inside militaries -- Wielding masculinity inside Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo : the globalized dynamics -- Demilitarizing a society in a globalizing world, or, Do you wear "camo"? -- The diverse lives of militarized and demilitarized women : globalizing insights from Japanese localized places -- Conclusion: The global, the local, and the personal.
Takes 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. This book unravels militarism's both blatant and subtle workings.