Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy

Claire Turenne Sjolander is in the Department of Political Science, University of Ottawa. Heather Smith is in the Department of International Studies, University of Northern British Columbia.

Contributors ; Acronyms ; Preface ; 1. Taking Up and Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Feminists, Gender, and Canadian Foreign Policy ; 2. Engaging the Possibilities of Magic: Feminist Pedagogy and Canadian Foreign Policy ; Part 1: Internationalism and Globalization ; 3. Disrupting Internationalism and Finding the Others ; 4. Gender and Canadian Trade Policy: Women's Strategies for Access and Transformation ; 5. Of Playing Fields, Competitiveness and the Will to Win: Representations of Gender and Globalization ; Part 2: Human Security ; 6. Militarized Masculinities and the Politics of Peacekeeping: The Canadian Case ; 7. Myths of Canada's Human Security Pursuits: Tales of Tool Boxes, Toy Chests, and Tickle Trunks ; 8. Masculinities, Femininities, and Sustainable Development: A Gender Analysis of DFAIT's Sustainable Development Strategy ; Section 3: Human Rights ; 9. Women's Human Rights: Canada at Home and Abroad ; 10. Discourses and Feminist Dilemmas: Trafficking, Prostitution, and the Sex Trade in the Philippines ; 11. The Contradictions of Canadian Commitments to Refugee Women ; Section 4: Women's Organizing ; 12. It's Time for Change: A Feminist Discussion of Resistance and Transformation in Periods of Liberal World Order ; 13. Organizing for Beijing: Canadian NGOs and the Fourth World Conference on Women ; 14. Gendered Dissonance: Feminists, FAFIA, and Canadian Foreign Policy ; Bibliography ; Index