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Cynthia Enloe was selected as the 2008 recipient of the Susan S. Northcutt Award. The award was established in 2003 by the Women’s Caucus for International Studies (WCIS) to honor the Caucus’ founder, Susan S. Northcutt. The award recognizes a person who actively works toward recruiting and advancing women and other minorities in the profession, and whose spirit is inclusive, generous and conscientious. Furthermore, the recipient has made significant contributions through service and competence in the profession of international studies and to the International Studies Association.

This past year, Enloe gave the Plenary Lecture at the annual meeting of the British International Studies Association at Cambridge University, which simultaneously marked the 20th anniversary of the association’s Gender and International Relations Section. In January, she gave a talk at a conference of Women in the Security Sector at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where guests heard women judges, police officers and NGO activists from Liberia, Afghanistan, Columbia, Israel and Palestine describing what the daily threats to women’s genuine security are in each of their countries and how they as officials and activists are strategizing to challenge and reverse those insecurities. She’s been writing several forwards and prefaces to new books on feminism, women, gender and militarism, the most recent being a forward to Nadje Al-Ali’s and Nicola Pratt’s ground-breaking forthcoming book from the University of California Press, which focuses on the politics of Iraqi women activists under Saddam Hussein and now in the midst of the U.S.-Occupation.

The International Studies Association (ISA) chose Clark University researcher Cynthia Enloe as the 2007 recipient of the Susan Strange Award, established in 1998 to recognize a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community during the previous year. Enloe is the first woman to receive this prestigious honor.

Enloe is research professor of international development and women's studies. She has served as chair of Clark’s Government Department and director of Women’s Studies. She has been awarded Clark’s “Outstanding Teacher of the Year” three times and named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.

Cynthia Enloe, who grew up on Long Island and received a Ph.D. from the University of California/Berkeley, has served as chair of Clark’s Government Department and Director of Women’s Studies. Professor Enloe is currently a Research Professor in the IDCE Department and teaches the intensive seven-week seminar, “Gender, Militarization, and Development. 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.

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 (especially sneaker factories) and 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.

In recent years, Enloe has been invited to lecture and give special seminars on feminism, militarization, and globalization in Japan, Korea, Turkey, Canada, Britain and numerous colleges across the U.S. She has written for Ms. Magazine and Village Voice and has appeared on National Public Radio and the BBC. She 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 ), The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire, (2004) and and Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (2007). All of these are published by the University of California Press (www.ucpress.edu).

Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link

by Cynthia Enloe
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Release Date: February 28, 2007

Written by one of the world's leading feminist scholars, this masterful and provocative book takes seriously women's desires to be patriotic yet feminine and men's fears of being feminized as a strategy to explain how militarism is being globalized and thus what it will take to roll back militarized societies and assumptions. Through explorations of how governments think so narrowly about national security, of how post-war reconstruction efforts have marginalized women, of how ideas about feminization were used to humiliate male prisoners in Abu Ghraib, and of why camo has become a fashion statement, Cynthia H. Enloe unravels militarism's both blatant and subtle workings. Focusing her lens on the Big Picture of international politics and on the small picture of women's and men's complex everyday lives, Enloe challenges us to recognize militarism in all its forms.

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Globalization and Militarism; Feminists Make the Link, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007.

The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in The New Age of Empire, Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2004.

Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives , Berkeley and London, University of California Press, 2000 (forthcoming in Turkish, Japanese and Korean, 2004)

The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War , Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1993 (published in Japanese, 1999)

Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics , London: Pandora Press, Harper/Collins, 1989; Berkeley: University of California Press, January, 1990
*New edition with New Preface, Berkeley & London, University of California Press, 2000 (published in Turkish, 2003)

Does Khaki Become You? The Militarization of Women's Lives , London, Pandora Press; San Francisco, Harper\Collins, 1988. (editions have been published in Finnish and Swedish).

Ethnic Conflict and Political Development , Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1973 Reprinted by University Press of America, 1986.

Coeditor (with Wendy Chapkis) Of Common Cloth: Women in the Global Textile Industry , Amsterdam: Transnational Institute; Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1983.

Contributor, Loaded Questions: Women in Militaries , Wendy Chapkis, editor, Amsterdam: Transnational Institute; Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1981.

Ethnic Soldiers: State Security in Divided Societies , London: Penguin Books, 1980; Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Police, Military, Ethnicitv: Foundations of State Power , New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1980.

Co-Editor, (with Dewitt Ellinwood), Ethnicity and the Military in Asia , New Brunswick: Transition Books, 1980.

Co-Author (with Guy Pauker and Frank Golay), Diversity and Development in Southeast Asia: The Coming Decade , New York: McGraw-Hill and Council of Foreign Relations, 1977.

Co-Editor (with Ursula Semin-Panzer), The Military, The Police and Domestic Order: British and Third World Experiences , London: Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research, 1976.

Multi-Ethnic Politics: The Case-of Malaysia, Berkeley Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies , University of California, Berkeley, 1970.