Obligations and omissions : canada's ambiguous actions on gender equality / edited by Rebecca Tiessen and Stephen Baranyi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tiessen, Rebecca, editor.

Baranyi, Stephen, editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Social Justice in the Global South ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--Government policy.

Women's rights.

Women's rights--Developing countries--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, tables

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal & Kingston, [Ontario] ; London, [England] ; Chicago, [Illinois] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

Summary:

On issues pertaining to women and girls, Stephen Harper’s federal government positioned Canada as a “beacon of light” in the world. Programs were developed in relation to women’s maternal health and the protection of the girl child, but other actions point to an ambiguous and even contradictory approach that failed to address gender inequality. In Obligations and Omissions, contributors examine Canada’s equivocal – and diminished – role in working toward gender equality in the period between 2006 and 2015. Using a critical feminist lens to document, analyze, and challenge Canada’s relations with the Global South, chapters explore the extent to which matters of gender equality have been erased or exploited under the Harper government and the factors that explain these policy shifts. While the contributors document successes in Canada’s approach to some issues facing women and girls around the world, they also show many problems with the ways that agenda was framed and implemented under the Conservative government.. Drawing on rich theoretical investigation, empirical research, and discourse analysis, Obligations and Omissions reveals a complex picture of diverse practices, underscoring the implications of these actions for communities in the Global South, for Canada’s image in the international community, and for future governments in the pursuit of a renewed gender equality strategy.--publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables and Figures

Canada's Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality

Themes

Did Changes in Official Language Lead to Spending Shifts?

Missed Opportunity: A Discursive Analysis of Canada's Commitments to Maternal Health under the Muskoka Initiative

Queer Canada? The Harper Government and International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Rights

Criminals or Victims? An Analysis of the Harper Conservatives' Efforts on the Sex Trade and Human Trafficking

Lost without Way-Finders? Disability, Gender, and Canadian Foreign and Development Policy

Case Studies

Gold ‘n’ Girls: Why Canada Weds Gender Equality with Mining Capitalism in Burkina Faso

Canada, Women, and artisanal Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Discourse and Whole-of-Government: The Instrumentalization of Gender in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team

The Gendered Politics of Deceit in Egypt: The Instrumentalization of Women's Rights for an International Geostrategic Agenda

The Erasure of Gender in Canada–Haiti Cooperation?

Not High on Our Radar? The Harper Government and Missing and Murdered aboriginal Women in Canada

Looking Back and Moving Forward

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9780773550261

0773550267

9780773550254

0773550259