Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Policy

This book examines all the fundamental aspects of Canadian foreign policy from a feminist point of view. The contributions seek to deconstruct the gendered nature of discourse on and about Canadian foreign policy. The goal of the collection is, first, to deconstruct the dominant concepts ofthe discourse surrounding Canadian foreign policy as articulated by key government officials and agencies. The second goal is to consider the practices of foreign policies, that is, to ask how the discourse becomes, creates, ignores, silences, and limits particular policy practices and ways ofthinking and doing.

This work is part of a cutting-edge area of foreign policy scholarship examining the ways in which the study of foreign and security policy, which is often difficult to "gender," might be combined with feminist approaches to global concerns. The co-editors, all well-known scholars in thefield, [are] to be commended for its ambitious attempt to expose both the "multiple sites of foreign policy" and the views of "differing feminist analyses" (pg 1) -- Melissa Haussman, Suffolk University, Boston in Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Spring 2004