An Entertaining Read, 29 Oct 1998
My brother brought this home from school. He said he hated it. I read it and loved it. Some of her theories are a little far-out, but most of what she says makes sense. Her major point is "The personal is political, the personal is international." Enloe makes some amazing and original connections between institutions and policies that are considered inherent and gender roles. Don't limit this to the text book category.

An Entertaining Read, 29 Oct 1998
My brother brought this home from school. He said he hated it. I read it and loved it. Some of her theories are a little far-out, but most of what she says makes sense. Her major point is "The personal is political, the personal is international." Enloe makes some amazing and original connections between institutions and policies that are considered inherent and gender roles. Don't limit this to the text book category.

A mixed bag, 08 Oct 2007
I was quite prepared not to like this book at all since it commences with a number of swaggering lesbians "butching it up" and behaving like the worst kind of sexist men, objectifying "femmes" in a bar. Perhaps I've led a very sheltered life, or perhaps it really is different over there in the USA, but I really haven't ever met any women like this and I do find it both frustrating and depressing when writers employ these stereotypes. It does get better though - the narrative is quite brisk if rather episodic, and the dialogue is credible and convincing. Relies on a bit of a fantasy - injured but brave 'butch' being fondly nursed by delicate, arty, blonde femme and what transpires isn't totally unbelievable. What, for me, lets this book down is the ending. Don't want to be a spoiler here but this probably won't lift your spirits and I can't honestly see what the author hoped to achieve with such a conclusion.

Synopsis, 26 Jul 2007
Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached...
As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamour for her attention. When a neighbouring aging rancher fills the Fleming's life with aggravation and vandalism, Taylor is forced to confront the old man's estranged daughter, Jen Holland, and convince her to intervene, a task Jen seems to have little interest in undertaking. After a traumatic accident leaves Taylor with imposed bed rest, not only is her cowgirl independence tested to the limit, it also offers Jen an ultimatum she thought she'd never have to make. To keep her father's property from being sold on the courthouse steps, Jen must dust off her nursing skills and take the job as care giver to the stubborn Taylor Fleming. Sparks will fly and who knows where they will land.

An Entertaining Read, 29 Oct 1998
My brother brought this home from school. He said he hated it. I read it and loved it. Some of her theories are a little far-out, but most of what she says makes sense. Her major point is "The personal is political, the personal is international." Enloe makes some amazing and original connections between institutions and policies that are considered inherent and gender roles. Don't limit this to the text book category.

A mixed bag, 08 Oct 2007
I was quite prepared not to like this book at all since it commences with a number of swaggering lesbians "butching it up" and behaving like the worst kind of sexist men, objectifying "femmes" in a bar. Perhaps I've led a very sheltered life, or perhaps it really is different over there in the USA, but I really haven't ever met any women like this and I do find it both frustrating and depressing when writers employ these stereotypes. It does get better though - the narrative is quite brisk if rather episodic, and the dialogue is credible and convincing. Relies on a bit of a fantasy - injured but brave 'butch' being fondly nursed by delicate, arty, blonde femme and what transpires isn't totally unbelievable. What, for me, lets this book down is the ending. Don't want to be a spoiler here but this probably won't lift your spirits and I can't honestly see what the author hoped to achieve with such a conclusion.

Synopsis, 26 Jul 2007
Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached...
As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamour for her attention. When a neighbouring aging rancher fills the Fleming's life with aggravation and vandalism, Taylor is forced to confront the old man's estranged daughter, Jen Holland, and convince her to intervene, a task Jen seems to have little interest in undertaking. After a traumatic accident leaves Taylor with imposed bed rest, not only is her cowgirl independence tested to the limit, it also offers Jen an ultimatum she thought she'd never have to make. To keep her father's property from being sold on the courthouse steps, Jen must dust off her nursing skills and take the job as care giver to the stubborn Taylor Fleming. Sparks will fly and who knows where they will land.

pleasing style, 27 Jul 2004
This book mixes the facts with selected quotations from the research which make it informative and pleasurable to read. This is a style that all too often, fails to reach the right balance. Not the case on this occasion

An Entertaining Read, 29 Oct 1998
My brother brought this home from school. He said he hated it. I read it and loved it. Some of her theories are a little far-out, but most of what she says makes sense. Her major point is "The personal is political, the personal is international." Enloe makes some amazing and original connections between institutions and policies that are considered inherent and gender roles. Don't limit this to the text book category.

A mixed bag, 08 Oct 2007
I was quite prepared not to like this book at all since it commences with a number of swaggering lesbians "butching it up" and behaving like the worst kind of sexist men, objectifying "femmes" in a bar. Perhaps I've led a very sheltered life, or perhaps it really is different over there in the USA, but I really haven't ever met any women like this and I do find it both frustrating and depressing when writers employ these stereotypes. It does get better though - the narrative is quite brisk if rather episodic, and the dialogue is credible and convincing. Relies on a bit of a fantasy - injured but brave 'butch' being fondly nursed by delicate, arty, blonde femme and what transpires isn't totally unbelievable. What, for me, lets this book down is the ending. Don't want to be a spoiler here but this probably won't lift your spirits and I can't honestly see what the author hoped to achieve with such a conclusion.

Synopsis, 26 Jul 2007
Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached...
As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamour for her attention. When a neighbouring aging rancher fills the Fleming's life with aggravation and vandalism, Taylor is forced to confront the old man's estranged daughter, Jen Holland, and convince her to intervene, a task Jen seems to have little interest in undertaking. After a traumatic accident leaves Taylor with imposed bed rest, not only is her cowgirl independence tested to the limit, it also offers Jen an ultimatum she thought she'd never have to make. To keep her father's property from being sold on the courthouse steps, Jen must dust off her nursing skills and take the job as care giver to the stubborn Taylor Fleming. Sparks will fly and who knows where they will land.

pleasing style, 27 Jul 2004
This book mixes the facts with selected quotations from the research which make it informative and pleasurable to read. This is a style that all too often, fails to reach the right balance. Not the case on this occasion

Compelling but difficult, 21 Jan 2008
This is not an easy read. John McGrath investigates why many people are unbothered or even attracted to the idea of cameras monitoring almost every step they set outdoors. For this he turns primarily to art. Many choreographers and directors nowadays use cameras for live projections on stage of what is going on (for instance close ups of sweating dancer's faces blown up to gigantic proportions on the stage screen).

Mr. McGrath notes that this leads to more intense experience of the performance, by both artist and audience. From here he extrapolates to society as a whole where, he argues, certain 'codes' have developed how people deal with ubiquitous security cameras.

Drawing on art and popular culture mr. McGrath gives plenty of accessible illustrations of his point, but this cannot conceal the book being pretty abstract stuff. The subject is compelling, the analysis thorough, but some stamina is required to get through it all.

knowledge is power, 29 Sep 2005
A very relevant book for our times with a lot of usefull information, very interesting artists and many references to other theorists, artists and writers on the same subject, well worth reading.

An Entertaining Read, 29 Oct 1998
My brother brought this home from school. He said he hated it. I read it and loved it. Some of her theories are a little far-out, but most of what she says makes sense. Her major point is "The personal is political, the personal is international." Enloe makes some amazing and original connections between institutions and policies that are considered inherent and gender roles. Don't limit this to the text book category.

A mixed bag, 08 Oct 2007
I was quite prepared not to like this book at all since it commences with a number of swaggering lesbians "butching it up" and behaving like the worst kind of sexist men, objectifying "femmes" in a bar. Perhaps I've led a very sheltered life, or perhaps it really is different over there in the USA, but I really haven't ever met any women like this and I do find it both frustrating and depressing when writers employ these stereotypes. It does get better though - the narrative is quite brisk if rather episodic, and the dialogue is credible and convincing. Relies on a bit of a fantasy - injured but brave 'butch' being fondly nursed by delicate, arty, blonde femme and what transpires isn't totally unbelievable. What, for me, lets this book down is the ending. Don't want to be a spoiler here but this probably won't lift your spirits and I can't honestly see what the author hoped to achieve with such a conclusion.

Synopsis, 26 Jul 2007
Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached...
As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamour for her attention. When a neighbouring aging rancher fills the Fleming's life with aggravation and vandalism, Taylor is forced to confront the old man's estranged daughter, Jen Holland, and convince her to intervene, a task Jen seems to have little interest in undertaking. After a traumatic accident leaves Taylor with imposed bed rest, not only is her cowgirl independence tested to the limit, it also offers Jen an ultimatum she thought she'd never have to make. To keep her father's property from being sold on the courthouse steps, Jen must dust off her nursing skills and take the job as care giver to the stubborn Taylor Fleming. Sparks will fly and who knows where they will land.

pleasing style, 27 Jul 2004
This book mixes the facts with selected quotations from the research which make it informative and pleasurable to read. This is a style that all too often, fails to reach the right balance. Not the case on this occasion

Compelling but difficult, 21 Jan 2008
This is not an easy read. John McGrath investigates why many people are unbothered or even attracted to the idea of cameras monitoring almost every step they set outdoors. For this he turns primarily to art. Many choreographers and directors nowadays use cameras for live projections on stage of what is going on (for instance close ups of sweating dancer's faces blown up to gigantic proportions on the stage screen).

Mr. McGrath notes that this leads to more intense experience of the performance, by both artist and audience. From here he extrapolates to society as a whole where, he argues, certain 'codes' have developed how people deal with ubiquitous security cameras.

Drawing on art and popular culture mr. McGrath gives plenty of accessible illustrations of his point, but this cannot conceal the book being pretty abstract stuff. The subject is compelling, the analysis thorough, but some stamina is required to get through it all.

knowledge is power, 29 Sep 2005
A very relevant book for our times with a lot of usefull information, very interesting artists and many references to other theorists, artists and writers on the same subject, well worth reading.

Important book on feminism in the middle east, 12 Nov 2001
This book is written in 1896 and 1900, but is still controversial in Egypt and other Middle East-countries, over 100 years after the two books got published for the first time (the two books got republished in one in the year 2000).
Amin, a laywer and journalist, is dicussing womens rights in the egyptian society. Amin is asking for more freedom for women. He discuss why women have to use "vail" - and he himself is against this. He also wants women to get education, to get more personal freedom. Only then can woman and men respect eachother, is his message.
The book is highly recommended. Number one - to get a discussion about the situation for women in the Middle East today - but also to see that in many ways, the discussion in the Middle East concerning women, unfortuantly, has not gotten very far - in the Levant society in the year 2001.

An Entertaining Read, 29 Oct 1998
My brother brought this home from school. He said he hated it. I read it and loved it. Some of her theories are a little far-out, but most of what she says makes sense. Her major point is "The personal is political, the personal is international." Enloe makes some amazing and original connections between institutions and policies that are considered inherent and gender roles. Don't limit this to the text book category.

A mixed bag, 08 Oct 2007
I was quite prepared not to like this book at all since it commences with a number of swaggering lesbians "butching it up" and behaving like the worst kind of sexist men, objectifying "femmes" in a bar. Perhaps I've led a very sheltered life, or perhaps it really is different over there in the USA, but I really haven't ever met any women like this and I do find it both frustrating and depressing when writers employ these stereotypes. It does get better though - the narrative is quite brisk if rather episodic, and the dialogue is credible and convincing. Relies on a bit of a fantasy - injured but brave 'butch' being fondly nursed by delicate, arty, blonde femme and what transpires isn't totally unbelievable. What, for me, lets this book down is the ending. Don't want to be a spoiler here but this probably won't lift your spirits and I can't honestly see what the author hoped to achieve with such a conclusion.

Synopsis, 26 Jul 2007
Taylor Fleming is a thirty-six year old Texas rancher who covets her independence enough to keep her life simple, no strings attached...
As partner to her father's vast cattle ranch, she has enough to keep her busy without taking on a serious relationship with any of the women who clamour for her attention. When a neighbouring aging rancher fills the Fleming's life with aggravation and vandalism, Taylor is forced to confront the old man's estranged daughter, Jen Holland, and convince her to intervene, a task Jen seems to have little interest in undertaking. After a traumatic accident leaves Taylor with imposed bed rest, not only is her cowgirl independence tested to the limit, it also offers Jen an ultimatum she thought she'd never have to make. To keep her father's property from being sold on the courthouse steps, Jen must dust off her nursing skills and take the job as care giver to the stubborn Taylor Fleming. Sparks will fly and who knows where they will land.

pleasing style, 27 Jul 2004
This book mixes the facts with selected quotations from the research which make it informative and pleasurable to read. This is a style that all too often, fails to reach the right balance. Not the case on this occasion

Compelling but difficult, 21 Jan 2008
This is not an easy read. John McGrath investigates why many people are unbothered or even attracted to the idea of cameras monitoring almost every step they set outdoors. For this he turns primarily to art. Many choreographers and directors nowadays use cameras for live projections on stage of what is going on (for instance close ups of sweating dancer's faces blown up to gigantic proportions on the stage screen).

Mr. McGrath notes that this leads to more intense experience of the performance, by both artist and audience. From here he extrapolates to society as a whole where, he argues, certain 'codes' have developed how people deal with ubiquitous security cameras.

Drawing on art and popular culture mr. McGrath gives plenty of accessible illustrations of his point, but this cannot conceal the book being pretty abstract stuff. The subject is compelling, the analysis thorough, but some stamina is required to get through it all.

knowledge is power, 29 Sep 2005
A very relevant book for our times with a lot of usefull information, very interesting artists and many references to other theorists, artists and writers on the same subject, well worth reading.

Important book on feminism in the middle east, 12 Nov 2001
This book is written in 1896 and 1900, but is still controversial in Egypt and other Middle East-countries, over 100 years after the two books got published for the first time (the two books got republished in one in the year 2000).
Amin, a laywer and journalist, is dicussing womens rights in the egyptian society. Amin is asking for more freedom for women. He discuss why women have to use "vail" - and he himself is against this. He also wants women to get education, to get more personal freedom. Only then can woman and men respect eachother, is his message.
The book is highly recommended. Number one - to get a discussion about the situation for women in the Middle East today - but also to see that in many ways, the discussion in the Middle East concerning women, unfortuantly, has not gotten very far - in the Levant society in the year 2001.

its ok., 25 May 2007
this book is a facinating reed, depresing but when given lots of thought , theres not a lot of point fighting against it from happening, theyve been trying for the last 3 or 4 decades with very little progress!.
time and money wasted and very few clits saved!!!, more should really be done but its not .