'How Can you Tell If You're Becoming Militarized? Doing a Feminist Audit' By Professor Cynthia Enloe

In this public lecture, world renowned feminist scholar Professor Cynthia Enloe will explore the militarization of our everyday lives and how this socio-political process is gendered.
Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Professor Enloe's teaching and research have focused on the interplay of gendered politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women's labour is made cheap in globalized factories (especially sneaker factories) and how women's emotional and physical labor has been used to support many governments' war-waging policies-and how diverse women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic and national identities, as well as pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities, are common threads throughout her research.
Professor Enloe's fourteen books include Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2004), The Curious Feminist (2004) and Globalization and Militarism (2007, 2015), as well as Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War, (2011), The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and Truths about the United States (co-authored with Joni Seager) (2012), Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered (2013). Her new, totally updated and revised 2nd edition of Bananas, Beaches and Bases was published by University of California Press in June, 2014.
Cynthia Enloe was awarded the International Studies Association's Susan Strange Award in 2007, in recognition of "a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and organizational complacency in the international studies community during the previous year." In 2008, she was awarded the Susan B. Northcutt Award, presented annually by the Women's Caucus for International Studies, of the International Studies Association, to recognize "a person who actively works toward recruiting and advancing women and other minorities in the profession, and whose spirit is inclusive, generous and conscientious." In 2010, Cynthia Enloe was awarded the Peace and Justice Studies Association's Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement Award.
She has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Union College (2005), the School of Oriental and African Studies (2009), Connecticut College (2010), the University of Lund, Sweden (2012) and Clark University (2014).

[@joannahvazquez82]

What a powerful orator! Thank you Cynthia for sharing your insights!

[@mahelmasry9035]

I genuinely wish I was there! what an amazing charismatic proffosor!

[@beccabowen4292]

i've fallen in love with cynthia enloe