Have We Already Forgotten Iraqi Women?: Some Feminist Warnings about Post-War American Amnesia

Cynthia Enloe, the foremost feminist scholar of international relations, will present "Have We Already Forgotten Iraqi Women?: Some Feminist Warnings about Post-War American Amnesia" on Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. in Ice Auditorium. Enloe's lecture will headline a full slate of events scheduled for Gender Equity Week at Linfield, which runs Feb. 10-15. Enloe, a research professor in the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University whose work has been described as path breaking, will discuss what is remembered and forgotten about the Iraq War. She will focus on U.S. presumptions about Iraqi women and how remaining alert to their ideas and efforts might make Americans smarter about wars in general and our involvement in war. Enloe's career has included Fulbright awards to Malaysia and Guyana and she has taught in Europe, Asia and the U.S. She is the author of 13 books including "Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War." She received her bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and her master's and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests are the interactions of feminism, militarized culture, war, politics and globalized economics. Subject: PLACE Lectures Run Length: 01:33 Author: Cynthia Enloe Publisher: Linfield College Copyright: 2014