Seriously! – Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered - Hardcover

Enloe, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520275365 ISBN 13: 9780520275362

Publisher: University of California Press, 2013

Synopsis

In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label "serious" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances - in banks, on the job market, in war zones, and in revolutions. The results of taking women seriously are fresh insights into what fuels the cultures of hyper - risk taking, of sexual harassment, and the denial of women's post-war security.

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Review:

"Enloe offers vivid illustrations from around the world of how women's perspectives and needs are ignored or trivialized, both in public discourse and policymaking." Ms. "Enloe offers vivid illustrations from around the world of how women's perspectives and needs are ignored or trivialized, both in public discourse and policymaking." -- Carrie Baker Ms. Magazine

About the Author:

Cynthia Enloe is research professor at Clark University and author of numerous books, including Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0520275365
• ISBN 13: 9780520275362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248