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Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered

By Cynthia Enloe

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780520956667
DOI
10.1525/9780520956667
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2089805 bytes)
Pages
258\258
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:24:42

Description

In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label "serious" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as well as UN peacekeeping and the ongoing Egyptian revolution. Each case study highlights the gritty experiences of women in diverse circumstances—in banks, on the job market, in war zones, and in revolutions. The results of taking women seriously are fresh insights into what fuels the cultures of hyper–risk taking, of sexual harassment, and the denial of women’s post-war security.

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