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Cynthia Enloe
Born
in New York, The United States
July 16, 1938
Genre
Influences
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“Patriarchy is sustained by those co-workers who withhold their valuable support for women colleagues because they see the world as a zero-sum universe: you gain, I lose.”
― Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
― Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
“Decisions. Exposing decisions and decision-makers is, I think, a feminist commitment. It reveals that the racism, class inequality, and, of course, sexism that commonly pass as "tradition," "nature", and "culture" can be tracked down to deliberate actions by specific individuals who are seeking to protect their own interests or the interests of the institutions they serve. Holding accountable all sorts of decision-makers for their choices –including choosing neglect, denial, and inaction– is crucial, I've come to believe, for sustaining civic trust.”
― Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
― Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy
“Journalist Beatrix Campbell interviewed one British woman who thought of herself as a member of the Conservative Party, the party of Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister who was a chief backer of the U.S. base and its nuclear-headed missiles. But when this woman began thinking about the Greenham women’s peace camp, she recalled that she had developed another sort of political understanding. She had cut her hair short to make it clear to her husband and sons that she identified with the Greenham women: “Before Greenham I didn’t realize that the Americans had got their missiles here. Then I realized. What cheek! It was the fuss the Greenham Common women made that made me realize. . . . The men in this house [her husband and two sons] think they’re butch, queers.” Did she? She thought for a moment. “No.” Would it have bothered her if they were butch or if they were lesbians? She thought again. “No.” Women irritated her men anyway, she said, not without affection. “They never stop talking about Land Rovers and bikes, and they’ve not finished their dinner before they’re asking for their tea.”
― Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
― Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
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