LEWISTON – A professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who is a specialist in women’s politics in the national and international arenas will discuss the Iraq war at Bates College on Monday.

Cynthia Enloe will give a talk titled “How Can You Tell if You Are Being Militarized? Some Feminist Clues in the Midst of the Iraq War” at 1 p.m. Monday, April 25.

It will be held in the Keck Classroom, Room G52 of Pettengill Hall. Sponsored by the political science department, the event is free and open to the public.

Enloe’s feminist teaching and research have paid special attention to how women’s labor is cheapened in globalized factories, especially sneaker factories, and how women’s emotional and physical labor has been used to support governments’ war policies, and how numerous women have tried to resist both of those efforts.

A concern with ways that ideas about masculinity and femininity are shaped by racial, class, ethnic and national identities and pressures runs throughout her work.

A research professor in the Clark University international development department, Enloe teaches the intensive seven-week seminar, “Gender, Militarization, and Development.”

She has been awarded Clark’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year award three times and has been named the University Senior Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship.