posted on Nov. 7: Professor of government, women studies speaks on militarism, demilitarism

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The Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University presents its 15th annual Bertrand Russell peace lectures featuring Cynthia Enloe, a professor of government at Clark University.

Enloe will speak on Militarism and International Politics: A Feminist Critique tonight and on The Meaning of De-Militarization on Thursday, Nov. 8. Both lectures are at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1A1, Ewart Angus Centre.

Enloe is a professor of government and director of women's studies at Clark University and a recent director of the cultural identities and global processes program (1995-2000).

Enloe has studied and written
about the many ways in which militarization is a globalized phenomenon
which affects the thinking and practice of not only policy-makers and
strategists, but the everyday lives of men and women around the world.

Her books include Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives; La Mujer Ausente (Woman, the Absent One): Women and Human
Rights in the World
; The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the
Cold War
; Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of
International Politics
; and Does Khaki Become You? The Militarization of
Women's Lives
.

In addition, Enloe has published more than 100 articles in various journals and sits on the editorial boards of numerous academic journals.

Enloe has held a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard
University, was a Peace Fellow at Australian National University, a
Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo and a Ford
Foundation International Conflict Fellow.

She has been awarded the
College Medal at Connecticut College, and has been recognized as a
University Seminar Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and
Scholarship at Clark University.