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 - between
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 IUD to
begin a new life as a wife and mother to the Estonion 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. Emerging nationalist movements, while
often viewed as liberatory, serve ironically to reestablish the
privileges of masculinity and grease the wheels of a new
militarism. From the new states of Eastern Europe to Kuwait to
Latin America, Enloe not only documents ongoing assaults upon women
but also suggests what they tell us about living in this post-Cold
War era. The rape of Bosnian women and the prostitution around
American military facilities are just two of the graphic reminders
of women's continuing disenfranchisement. Other forms are more
subtle. Yet in this gray dawn of the "morning after", rife with the
contradictions and tensions of a new era, the politics of sexuality
has already shifted irrevocably. Femininity andmasculinity are
being contested and refashioned as women - soldiers, mothers,
legislators, and workers - glimpse the exciting possibilities of
democratization while confronting the realities of a turbulent,
largely patriarchal world. 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.
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