Summary Of Bananas Beaches And Bases

Bananas Beaches and Bases The fourth chapter of the book “Base Women” elucidates how women have been exploited for the endurance of the military bases in the country or overseas. How women as girlfriends, wives, prostitutes assisted militia keep serving the army. States kept wives contented in order to offer constancy to the family of the soldier by bringing wife alongside out of the country assignments and state itself talking care of the needs of the wives by giving them exceptional privileges. The armed forces are also offered sex workers by the state, near the base campsite, to keep their masculine sensation active (Enloe). It is very critical for the state to the charisma of women. It is only in the attendance of women that the consciousness of “being a male” can be kept vigorous. Therefore, subsistence of women in the lives of armed forces as sexual partners, prostitutes and wives is very imperative for the endurance of martial man supremacy. Enloe argued how much wives developed their self-appeal from their military husbands. Husband’s patriotism is the loyalty for the wife; devoid of this emotion, it would have been rigid for the state to uphold its operational force.
The chapter 4 of Bananas, Beaches, and Bases opens a ‘Pandora's Box’ by unleashing questions that numerous usual students of International Politics are habitual to ignore or overlook about the link between gender and global political life, and it steers us to perceive how both are equally constitutive. It serves as the "Magna Carta" of Feminist International Relations; it has facilitated to create a new generation of women and men in the world of international relations