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Carroll D. Clark
Sociology Lecture Series for 2004

Professor Cynthia Enloe

"Taking Women 'Seriously' Makes Us Smarter about the US War in Iraq"
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 - 4 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Cynthia Enloe (pictured at left with Joane Nagel) grew up on Long Island and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as Chair of Clark University's Department of Government and Director of Women's Studies. She has been awarded Clark's Outstanding Teacher of the Year three times and been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow For Excellence in Teaching and in Scholarship.

Cynthia'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, Cynthia 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 US. She has written for Ms. Magazine and the 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 Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2000) and Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2000). Her newest book is The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire (2004). All of these are published by the University of California Press.

A list of Professor Enloe's publications appears at www.clarku.edu/departments/idce/faculty/enloe.cfm and you can read more about her books at www.ucpress.edu/books/

A Sociology Department Colloquium is scheduled for the following day at 10:30 in the McCluggage Conference Room, 706 Fraser Hall.