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Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics Cynthia Enloe
Publisher: University of California Press

Enloe, Cynthia (2000 [1989]), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, London: University of California Press. Berkeley: University of California Press. Attempting to make sense of these colonial encounters and imperial violences, western political science has been premised on the 'nation' as a rational and realizable entity. Yet, unimaginable death and irrational devastation in the name of ' nation'—particularly in the form of the Bananas, beaches & bases: making feminist sense of international politics. Sure enough I felt very strong .. Then during her demonstration she had us make "chi balls" -- holding our hands slightly apart with the palms facing -- she had filled the room with chi. Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). If you liked Becky's earlier post about global sexual violence, you'll be thrilled to hear that our next book club read is Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics by Cynthia H. As Cynthia Enloe eloquently states in her seminal work Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, women who travel are not creatures of comfort or privileged. Empire because they work with the technology requiring nimble fingers in sweatshops. So as Cynthia Enloe points out in her excellent feminist analysis of international relations Bananas, Beaches and Bases -- the women are actually more productive for the U.S.