Cynthia Enloe

Men’s capacity to control women’s sense of their security and self-worth has been central to the evolution of tourism politics. It is for this reason that actions by women—as tourists, airline flight attendants, hotel housekeepers, union organizers, women in prostitution, data collectors, wives of businessmen, and organizers of alternative tours for women—should be seen as political, internationally political.

Chinese political leadership has spoken in the language of nationalism while not only continuing to deepen China’s rule of Tibet and to claim Taiwan but also extending China’s claim of sovereignty over the oil-rich South China Sea.

storytellers often craft their tales—of humiliation, mobilization, struggle, victory, and defeat—as if nationalism were experienced identically by women and men, and as if women and men played identical roles in defining and critiquing nationalist goals.

Any commentator, nevertheless, who remains incurious about women’s experiences, ideas, and actions, consequently, will draw a picture of nationalism and of any given nationalist movement that is simplistic. Drawing simplistic portraits of nationalist movements will produce a canvas that makes international politics look simpler than it is.

the annexation of Hawaii and colonial expansion in the Caribbean and the Pacific did little more than extend American-style subjugation of women.

annexation of Hawaii and colonial expansion in the Caribbean and the Pacific did little more than extend American-style subjugation of women.

Sexual liaisons between colonial men and local women usually were winked at; affairs between colonial women and local men were deemed threats to imperial order

Sexual liaisons between colonial men and local women usually were winked at; affairs between colonial women and local men were deemed threats to imperial order.

he had learned the importance of revering women, especially mothers and “the right girl.”

had learned the importance of revering women, especially mothers and “the right girl.”