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hoW doEs onE militarizE a Can of tomato soup? This simple question, posed by Cynthia Enloe in her important book Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000), is what brought together the three authors of this article in August 2013. We were each on an academic journey, coparticipants in a graduate seminar titled “Gender, War, and Militarism” at Purdue University, trying to figure out the ways in which militarism affected our lives. Alicia C. Decker came to the seminar as a feminist scholar who had been writing about militarism for several years. Summer Forester arrived as a second-year doctoral student with a deep interest in feminist security studies, informed largely by her own experiences living and working on a military base in Florida. And Eliot Blackburn came to the seminar as a first-year master’s degree student with a feminist curiosity about citizenship and belonging, but also with a more personal connection to the subject— his father was a naval officer who had spent many years away from his family in service to the nation. Together, over the course of the ensuing semester, we explored how militarism, as a gendered ideology, and militarization, as a gendered process, have shaped the world around us. We spent a great deal of time thinking about the militarization of everyday life. Enloe taught us that something as mundane as tomato soup can be militarized if it “becomes controlled by, dependent on, or derives its value from the military as an institution or militaristic |
