Curious- Patrick Campbell- April 28th

Patrick Campbell

Cynthia Enloe’s piece “Being Curious about Our Lack of Feminist Curiosity,” displays her rationale for the reasoning of why women have shown little feminist curiosity. Enloe goes on to inform the reader that such explanatory variables regarding this lack of curiosity, include laziness, lack of motivation, distractions involving other focuses in life, etc. She also explains how cultural and “traditional” practices deter women from engaging in this curiosity. I personally believe her piece which displays her own experiences of laziness makes her argument much stronger. This enables the female readers to relate or kind of believe that her theory is sound. She offers up to the reader some possible solutions to this laziness, which I believe many of the past authors we have read did not propose enough of. Following her argument she attempts to shed light on the way women should try to explore all forms of patriarchy and seek change.

In our other reading from Enloe “The Surprised Feminist,” she begins her chapter stating that, “Predicting nevr had been my professional vocation,” which I perceive as a weak way to start a novel. However, when I continued reading I began to see how she strongly presents her book. As always, I have a few objections, but they are not large enough to be discussed in this post. Her take on the “Nike Indonesian women sneaker-factory workers,” brought me back to the lessons of a month ago in class. However, showing these hard working women in-a-way takes away the power and legitiamacy of her other chapter, “Being Curious about Our Lack of Feminist Curiosity.” Enloe argument moves in the direction which depicts her biased opinion on the matter as well.