Cynthia Enloe gives a talk at the University of Iceland
Cynthia Enloe, Her talk is entitled: #IcelandToo? How Patriarchy Is Perpetuated. The talk is based on her new book, The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy.
In her talk, Enloe will seek to explain how and why sexual harassment, which was already named and challenged in the late 1970s, is still being practised with impunity in the present. Instead of having reached a tipping point decades ago, it continues to poison workplaces, create misogynist cultures and provide conditions for sexist enablers.
Academics and activists, Annadís Gréta Rúdólfsdóttir, Lilja Hjartardóttir and Þorgerður Þorvaldsdóttir join Cynthia in discussing the contents of the book and its relevance to the consequences of the #metoo revolution in contemporary Iceland. Irma Erlingsdóttir moderates the event. The lecture and discussion take place in English.
Cynthia's book, The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy, can be purchased at the event and in Bóksala Stúdenta, the University of Iceland bookshop.
About Cynthia Enloe
Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Enloe is world renowned for her feminist analysis on the interplay of gendered politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women's labour is made cheap in globalised factories and how women's emotional and physical labour has been used to support many governments' war-waging policies—and how diverse women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Enloe has conducted her research in Iraq, Afghanistan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Philippines, Canada, Chile and Turkey.
Since 2010. Dr. Enloe has visited Iceland annually and been a lecturer on gender, peace and security issues at the UNU-GEST programme at the University of Iceland. Once in Iceland, she has held many lectures and participated in conferences pertaining to peace, security issues and gender equality.
Professor Enloe's fourteen books include Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2004), The Curious Feminist (2004) and Globalization and Militarism (2007), as well as Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War, (2011), The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and Truths about the United States (co-authored with Joni Seager) (2012), Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered (2013). Her new, totally updated and revised 2nd edition of Bananas, Beaches and Bases was published by University of California Press in June 2014.
