Obligations and omissions : Canada's ambiguous actions on gender equality /

"Obligations and Omissions: Canada's Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality offers a critical analysis of Canada's commitments to gender equality programming. The chapters in this collection document Canada's equivocal approach, and overall diminished role, in the promotion of gend...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baranyi, Stephen, 1962- (Editor ), Tiessen, Rebecca, 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in gender, sexuality, and social justice in the global south ; 1.
Temas:
Women's rights > Government policy > Developing countries > Canada.
Women's rights > Developing countries > International cooperation.
Sex discrimination against women > Government policy > Developing countries > Canada.
Sex discrimination against women > Developing countries.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Developing countries.
Women > Government policy > Developing countries.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Pays en voie de développement > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes > Pays en voie de développement.
Femmes > Droits > Pays en voie de développement > Coopération internationale.
Femmes > Droits > Pays en voie de développement > Politique gouvernementale > Canada.
Femmes > Politique gouvernementale > Pays en voie de développement.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Diplomatic relations
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination against women > Government policy
Women > Government policy
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women's rights > Government policy
Women's rights > International cooperation
Canada > Foreign relations > Developing countries.
Developing countries > Foreign relations > Canada.
Canada > Relations extérieures > Pays en voie de développement.
Pays en voie de développement > Relations extérieures > Canada.
Canada
Developing countries
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Canada's ambiguous actions on gender equality
  • 1. Did changes in official language lead to spending shifts?
  • 2. Missed oppotunity: a discursive analysis of Canada's committments to maternal health under the Muskoka Initiative
  • 3. Queer Canada? The Harper government and international lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex rights
  • 4. Criminals or victims? An analysis of the Harper Conservatives' efforts on the sex trade and human trafficking
  • 5. Lost without way-finders? Disability, gender, and Canadian foreign and development policy
  • 6 Gold 'n' girls: why Canada weds gender equality with mining capitalism in Burkina Faso
  • 7. Canada, women, and artisanal mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • 8. Discourse and whole-of-government: the instrumentalization of gender in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team
  • 9. The gendered politics of deceit in Egypt: the instrumentalization of women's rights for an international geostrategic agenda
  • 10. The erasure of gender in Canada-Haiti cooperation?
  • 11. Not high on our radar? The Harper government and missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada
  • Conclusions: looking back and moving forward.

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