Cynthia Enloe
Research Professor

International Development (IDCE) and Women's Studies

Profile

E-mail:cenloe@clarku.edu

Tel:(508)793-7201

Current Academic Research Interests:

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), 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 (www.ucpress.edu).

Selected Publications:

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

"Conversation with Cynthia Enloe," in "Signs". Summer, 2003.

"Bananas, Beaches and Bases," Turkish edition. Summer, 2003.

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

The Comparative Politics of Pollution, New York: Longman's, 1975

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