Cynthia Enloe

This week’s radical is Dr. Cynthia Enloe, an internationally renowned academic and thought leader on feminism, particularly in the context of militarism. She has taught generations of young minds around the globe, and is a prolific author of books including The Curious Feminist, Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered, and The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy, among many others.Join us as we discuss everything from the gendering of labor in academic spaces, the challenges of teaching internationally, the importance of feminist curiosity, and why the literary canon in academia is fundamentally flawed.Some Questions I Ask:What are you working on in the moment? (0:47)Did your parents instill these feminist values in you? (9:47)Where did you go to university? (19:46)When were the seeds of your feminist awakening planted? (23:43)What prompted you to write The Curious Feminist? (36:16)How did you find yourself investigating masculinity? (42:25In This Episode, You Will Learn:Cynthia’s unlikely beginnings (3:50)How America’s social fabric is built on women’s unpaid work (7:47)The correlation between changing trends in divorce and changes in women’s lives (12:52)How #MeToo dragged patriarchal violence out of the shadows (18:13)How hierarchical ideas of what is to be taken seriously in the academic space keep patriarchy alive (25:27)Why doing gender-based audits of labor is a radical act (31:40)Why the idea of the academic canon is arbitrary (34:22)ResourcesBuy Cynthia's BooksFind books by your favorite R&R Lab guests—all in one place! Check out the Continuum Bookshop today, powered by Bookshop.Org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.