Sustainability and Social Justice

Keeping a feminist curiosity in critical military studies: In conversation with Cynthia Enloe

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Daniel Conway began in November 2022 for The World Today magazine and was continued and expanded in July 2024. Cynthia Enloe’s fifteen books include Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2nd ed, 2014); Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000) and Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (2nd ed, 2016). Her latest book, Twelve Feminist Lessons of War was published in 2023. Enloe has won numerous awards and is one of the honourees named on the Gender Justice Legacy Wall at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Daniel Conway is the author of Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa (2012) and has recently published articles exploring grassroots women’s and LGBTQ+ organizing and Pride events in South Africa, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and Mumbai in the journals International Feminist Journal of Politics, Sexualities, International Affairs and Sociology. © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Publication Title

Critical Military Studies

Publication Date

2025

ISSN

2333-7486

DOI

10.1080/23337486.2025.2499977

Keywords

feminist international relations, gender and militarization, gender and peace, gender and war, militarization

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