The UCCS Social Science Symposium Series Presents:
The Politics of Women, Gender and Militarism in Wartimes
A Distinguished Guest Lecture
by
Dr. Cynthia Enloe
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
4:30pm - 6:00pm
University Center Theater (UC 302)
Reception to follow.
One of America’s pre-eminent theorists of gender and the military, Cynthia Enloe is currently Research Professor in the International Development, Community and Environment Department at Clark University. Dr. Enloe’s feminist teaching and research has focused on the interplay of women’s politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women’s labor is made cheap in globalized factories, how women’s emotional and physical labor has been used to support governments’ war-waging policies, and how many women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic, and national identities and pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities have been common threads throughout her studies. Professor Enloe serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Signs and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Among her nine books are: The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000), Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), and The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, (2004). All of these are published by the University of California Press. She has written for Ms. Magazine, Village Voice and The Nation and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. She has been awarded Clark’s “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” three times and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.