The Basics Series

ReDefining Traditions

Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy

by Edna Keeble and Heather Smith  

This text contributes to the literature on gender and Canadian foreign policy, an area of study that is very much in its infancy. It introduces a (preliminary) theoretical framework as a way of applying feminist insights to Canadian foreign policy (what the authors call the feminist deconstructive method). Further, it shows the value in focusing on ideas and discourses as a starting point in order to engage conventional scholarship. And while not all encompassing, it provides a means by which to analyze “hard core” security and defence policies. Ultimately, the aim of the text is to legitimize the connection between gender and Canadian foreign policy and to ensure (and compel) students in the field that there are indeed grounds for redefining traditions.

Shop direct

Are you a student?


  • January 1999
  • ISBN: 9781552660072
  • 110 pages
  • $21.00
  • For sale worldwide

Or via your local bookstore
Shop Local

About the book

This text contributes to the literature on gender and Canadian foreign policy, an area of study that is very much in its infancy. It introduces a (preliminary) theoretical framework as a way of applying feminist insights to Canadian foreign policy (what the authors call the feminist deconstructive method). Further, it shows the value in focusing on ideas and discourses as a starting point in order to engage conventional scholarship. And while not all encompassing, it provides a means by which to analyze “hard core” security and defence policies. Ultimately, the aim of the text is to legitimize the connection between gender and Canadian foreign policy and to ensure (and compel) students in the field that there are indeed grounds for redefining traditions.

Canadian Studies Feminism, Gender & Sexuality

Authors

Edna Keeble

Edna Keeble is an associate professor of political science at Saint Mary’s University.

Heather Smith

Heather Smith is an assistant professor of international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Contents

  • Introduction: Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
  • Part 1: Feminist Theory
  • Adding Women
  • Privileging Women
  • Deconstructing/De-centring Women
  • Gender and CFP: Mapping an Alternative Framework
  • Overview of Chapters
  • Part 2: Identifying and Explaining the Exclusion of Women and Gender
  • Identifying the Exclusion
  • Seeking to Understand the Exclusion
  • What is to be Done>
  • Part 3: Reading the Gendering of Role and Status Conceptions
  • Canada: Protected and Dependent or One of the Boys?
  • Middle-power Internationalism: The Kinder, Gentler Canada?
  • Part 4: The Gendering of Security
  • Canada and Security Policy, The Feminine State
  • Human Security and Peacebuilding: Canadian Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
  • Part 5: Reflections of Gender and Canadian Foreign Policy
  • References

Login

Don’t know your password? We can help you reset it.

Are you a student?

Answer a few questions to get a special discount code only available to students.

Your Cart

There is nothing in your cart. Go find some books!