The erasure of "gender" in Canadian foreign policy under the Harper Conservatives: the significance of the discursive shift from "gender equality" to "equality between women and men"

• Published in: Canadian foreign policy journal Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 95 - 111
• Main Authors: Tiessen, Rebecca, Carrier, Krystel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 04.05.2015; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Canadian foreign policy; discourse; feminism; Foreign policy; gender equality; Gender equity; state identity; Womens rights movements; Canada

An important discursive shift took place in 2009 when government staff in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) - now the Department for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) - were instructed to replace th...