Table of Contents

Preface

1 How Do They Militarize a Can of Soup?
2 The Laundress, the Soldier, and the State
3 The Prostitute, the Colonel, and the Nationalist
4 When Soldiers Rape
5 If a Woman Is "Married to the Military,"
Who Is the Husband?
6 Nursing the Military: The Imperfect Management
of Respectability
7 Filling the Ranks: Militarizing Women as Mothers,
Soldiers, Feminists, and Fashion Designers

Conclusion: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Cynthia Enloe is Professor of Government at Clark University and author of The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War (California, 1993), Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (California, 1990) and Does Khaki Become You? (1988). Cynthia Enloe won the Howard Zinn Lifetime Achievement in Peace Studies Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA).

Reviews

"Demonstrate[s] with particular sensitivity and insight how core political institutions shape women's identities and interests. . . Beautifully written, in a lively, accessible manner, [MANEUVERS] teach[es] students that it is possible to combine rigorous, hard-hitting analysis with compassion and engagement."--"Women's Review of Books