Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor of International Development and Women’s Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA. She grew up in New York and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been interested in Vietnamese social dynamics for over thirty years and first visited Vietnam to talk with Vietnamese Women’s Studies and Gender scholars in 1993. Cynthia has taught and written about women’s roles in history, cultures and economies, especially what barriers they have faced, how those were justified and how women sought to overcome them. This has led her to explore women as factory and plantation workers, as political participants, as soldiers, and as victims and survivors of many wars. She has served on editorial boards of seven academic journals and in 2009 received an Honorary Doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. Her twelfth book has just been published : « Nimo’s War, Emma’s War : Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War. »