The Morning After

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Looking at the end of the Cold War—in the United States, Russia, Bosnia, El Salvador, and Vietnam, among other countries—Cynthia Enloe places women at the center of international politics. From the Tailhook scandal to the fall of the Berlin Wall to the NAFTA agreement, Enloe makes incisive connections—betv/een demilitarization and ideologies about motherhood and the family, between lesbians and national security, between the events "out there" and women's behavior "back here." Focusing on the inextricable, sometimes subterranean, relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe links jobs, domestic life, military networks, and international relations. From the Salvadoran revolutionary who removes her lUD to begin a new life as a wife and mother to the Estonian woman who faces down a fully armed Russian soldier, Enloe charts new definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism at the end of the twentieth century.
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Looking at the end of the Cold War—in the United States, Russia, Bosnia, El Salvador, and Vietnam, among other countries—Cynthia Enloe places women at the center of international politics. From the Tailhook scandal to the fall of the Berlin Wall to the NAFTA agreement, Enloe makes incisive connections—betv/een demilitarization and ideologies about motherhood and the family, between lesbians and national security, between the events "out there" and women's behavior "back here." Focusing on the inextricable, sometimes subterranean, relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe links jobs, domestic life, military networks, and international relations. From the Salvadoran revolutionary who removes her lUD to begin a new life as a wife and mother to the Estonian woman who faces down a fully armed Russian soldier, Enloe charts new definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism at the end of the twentieth century.
Deciphering the sexual tea-leaves of this tumultuous new era. The Morning After is an eye-opener for everyone who cares about contemporary sexual politics.
"Feminist trailblazer Cynthia Enloe has done it again. Turning her ghostbusting intellect on the sexual politics of the post-Cold War New International Disorder, Enloe once again demonstrates her unique capacity to track the subtleties and mutations of the illicit relationship between masculinity and militarism. For an intellectual journey through the Free Trade Agreement, Steve Canyon, Tailhook, women fighter pilots or resurgent nationalism, no guide is more astute or witty than Cynthia Enloe." —JUDITH S TA C E Y, author of
Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth Century America
"Cynthia Enloe applies her keen intelligence and feminist sensibility to the critical problem of our time: how to break out of the vicious cycle of militarism and war. At the end of the Cold War era, her insights point a way to a more rational and humane world order." _ERWIN KNOLL, Editor, The Progressive
CYNTHIA ENLOE is Professor and Chair of Government at Clark University and the author of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (California, 1990), among other books.
Jacket Illustration: Valeri Nistratov / Eastnet / Select Vissza