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The suggestion about Enloe drew opposition from a UNC-Chapel Hill historian and from contemporaries who called Enloe a figure of his day who worked over time to shed Raleigh's segregated past.
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Schools such as Enloe that predated the policy were grandfathered in.
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"My grandmother once gave me a toothbrush as a Christmas gift," writes Andrew Enloe as Stoke win a corner on the right.
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Just as Woolf exposed the threadbare nature of the claims of patriotism on women, Enloe subjects the military's definition of 'national security' to feminist scrutiny.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Following closely in the footsteps of Woolf, Enloe investigates the structural and ideological interconnections between patriarchy and militarism, shedding light on the complexities of their symbiotic relationship.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Enloe (1983) and Elshtain (1992, 1987, 1982) have drawn our attention to the gender and other dichotomies, which are fundamental to military culture, and by extension, give form and meaning to traditional wartime discourse and mythology.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Enloe clearly subscribes to the theory that women are innately pacifist but simply rejects pacifism and abstention as useful tactics.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Probing the contradictions in what military commanders want from women, Enloe helps expose the cracks in an institution that seeks to appear invulnerable before the world.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Enloe overlooks the fact that the Moral Mother construct is still used for militarist and non-militarist ends and, pertinent to this book, she does not acknowledge the power of cultural, historical, or national specificities in shaping perspectives on the possible ways in which women, war, feminism, and nationalism may interact.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Enloe takes the argument further by pointing out that such theories lack gender analysis and, so, are less effective than they could otherwise be.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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