| ID | 150565 |
| Title Proper | Flick of the skirt: |
| Other Title Information | a feminist challenge to IR’s coherent narrative |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Enloe, Cynthia |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Marriage is rarely accorded analytical attention by International Relations (IR) scholars. By contrast, feminist interrogators of marriage—as an institution and the site of lived experience—have exposed the reliance of militarists and militaries, and thus the conduct of international politics, on sustaining patriarchal marriage. By international political sociology taking those feminist interrogations seriously, we will be able to comprehend the significance of typically trivialized signals and gestures that otherwise fall through the nets of conventional international political analysis. “Military wives” (in all their national, racialized, and status diversity) prove worthy of serious international sociological attention. No military base, local or overseas, can be adequately understood without such attention. Attentiveness to gendered quotidian militarizing dynamics, in turn, will transform the IR narrative. |
| `In' analytical Note | International Political Sociology Vol.10, No.4; Dec 2016: p.320-331 |
| Journal Source | International Political Sociology 2016-12 10, 4 |
| Key Words | IR ; Feminist Challenge ; Coherent Narrative |