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

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.