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Enloe links wives, war

Contributing Reporter
Published Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Professor and author Cynthia Enloe spoke to about 40 people Monday about the role of so-called "military wives" in U.S. military policy.

Enloe, a research professor in the department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University, focused on the government's attempts to manipulate women for the purpose of furthering its military aims.

"You can't make sense of how the government uses a militarized foreign policy without using a feminist's perspective to analyze women whom the government controls and manipulates," Enloe said.

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