Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered

by Cynthia Enloe

Book Overview

In Seriously , Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label "serious" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and gender dynamics seriously, Cynthia Enloe investigates the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair and the banking crash of 2008, the subsequent recession, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520275373
• ISBN13: 9780520275379
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"