#IcelandToo? How Patriarchy Is Perpetuated
In her lecture, Enloe seeks to explain how and why sexual harassment, which was already framed and challenged in the late 1970s, is still being practiced with impunity in the present. Instead of having reached a tipping point decades ago, it continues to poison workplaces, create misogynist cultures and provide conditions for sexist enablers.
Academics and activists, Annadís Gréta Rúdólfsdóttir, Lilja Hjartardóttir and Þorgerður Þorvaldsdóttir join Prof. Enloe to discuss the contents of the book and its relevance to the consequences of the #metoo revolution in contemporary Iceland. Irma Erlingsdóttir moderates the event.
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About the book:
Decades of feminist campaigning have resulted in real advances, and yet patriarchy relentlessly continues to thrive.
Cynthia Enloe pulls back the curtain on patriarchy to reveal not only the blatant sexism we can all identify, but also the insidious persistence of particular forms of masculinity and authoritarianism in daily life.
These diverse and illuminating essays — which take as their starting point experiences from her own life and those of women from around the world — explore the resilience of patriarchal beliefs and values, and identify the unwitting nature of our complicity. She shows how, simply by noticing, questioning and crafting fresh feminist concepts, we can update our resistance and challenge patriarchy’s self-perpetuating core.
The book can be purchased at the event and in Bóksala Stúdenta, the University of Iceland bookshop.
About the author:
Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment at Clark University in Worcester, 
Massachusetts. Professor Enloe's feminist teaching and research have focused on the interplay of gendered politics in the national and international arenas, with special attention to how women's labor is made cheap in globalized factories (especially sneaker factories) and how women's emotional and physical labor has been used to support many governments' war-waging policies—and how diverse women have tried to resist both of those efforts. Racial, class, ethnic and national identities, as well as pressures shaping ideas about femininities and masculinities, are common threads throughout her studies.
Since 2010. Dr. Enloe has visited Iceland annually and been a lecturer on gender, peace and security issues at the UNU-GEST programme at the University of Iceland.
Professor Enloe's fourteen books include Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives (2004), The Curious Feminist (2004) and Globalization and Militarism (2007), as well as Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War, (2011), The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and Truths about the United States (co-authored with Joni Seager) (2012), Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered (2013). Her new, totally updated and revised 2nd edition of Bananas, Beaches and Bases was published by University of California Press in June, 2014.