Customer Review: Enloe's book is fascinating and I enjoyed reading it. Unlike some other feminist authors, she uses concrete examples based in reality and includes entertaining (and relevant) vignettes. A few times, she ventures a bit too far into the vast abyss of hyper-feminism (one example: drawing direct... more info
Customer Review: Cynthia Enloe is one of the best feminist international relations scholars in North America. Once again she has written a much needed timely volume. Enloe's writing is engaging and never filled with too much academese, so that the lay audience and academics alike can enjoy her books. This book... more info
Customer Review: I read the book. After reading less than 50% of it I got sick of the repeated descriptions of rape incidents. If it is not rape then it is killing or at times both. All of this took place in the backyard of civilized Eroupe ! and for many months. I did like the historical capture of the Bulkans... more info
Customer Review: Dr. Enloe's work is a frenetically paced tour of the seedy gendered underside of militarization throughout the world. While she raises good questions concerning the effects of militarization on women throughout the world, too often her work displays an unfamiliarity with the military facts that she... more info