Banana Beaches And Bases Chapter 2 Summary

Summarize: In chapter 3 of Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics, Cynthia Enloe shows us that being a feminist is a hard task in a nation-state. As described throughout the chapter, being a feminist in a nation state is a complex issue, because as femininity may rise with support in a nation-state, masculinity in that nation-state will be obliged to go down. At the end of chapter of 3 one thing is clear, masculinity and femininity are things that can not be valued equally and thus for one set of attributes to succeed it must come from the loss of its opposite. Explain: Cynthia Enloe explains that achieving femininity in nation-states is very hard, because it undermines the man’s role of nationality and masculinity. Enloe first starts by addressing the issue of “Gendered Colonialism”, how this notion spread male dominance over women in colonial regions and how the threat to masculinity was intertwined to become a threat to nationality. Furthermore, Enloe then describes the issue Hollywood and …show more content…
Most of the nation-states that Enloe details are nations with very low political equality among women and men. The issues that Enloe highlights in her reading are issues that stimulate more issues to be addressed, meaning that issues of femininity in her writing also spur issues of social inequality for women. Furthermore if one was discuss the issues of femininity movements in nation-states, one would also have to discuss issues of political equality and political representation in those states. Consequently we should care about the authors arguments because it highlights not only issues in her writing but also issues that may have not been addressed. Making her arguments and conclusions more worthily because it generates a much more broader discussion of femininity issues in