In Introduction: Being Curious about Our Lack of Feminist Curiosity, Enloe talks briefly about many of the issues we have gone over in class and questions why it is that people either do not realize or do not want to know more about issues until things are brought to their attention. She talks especially about how women are participants in patriarchy and how this type of patriarchy extends across many countries and that many things involved in being a nation are related to patriarchy. She also wonders why people take the easy route and avoid thinking hard or even considering many women’s issues. I thought the most useful piece of this introduction was this last point because I have often thought to myself how is it that I was unaware of many of these issues and Enloe wants to know the same thing.
In The Surprised Feminist Enloe talks about the benefits of being able to be surprised and how people today see being surprised as a sign of weakness especially in terms of intelligence. She talks about the many occasions she has been surprised by the world’s developments in recent years and how she could say that she wasn’t or twist her beliefs to pretend she knew these things would happen but she thinks that is counter productive. She goes on to link surprise with curiosity and not acting like all is known already.
These readings improved my view of Enloe’s book because I felt it helped to link the themes in her chapters and to give a reasoning for her book.
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