Chapter 1 Did Changes in Official Language Lead to Spending Shifts?

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Canada's Ambiguous Actions on Gender Equality 3
5. Themes
6. Did Changes in Official Language Lead to Spending Shifts? 23
7. Missed Opportunity: A Discursive Analysis of Canada's Commitments to Maternal Health under the Muskoka Initiative 49
8. Queer Canada? The Harper Government and International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Rights 69
9. Criminals or Victims? An Analysis of the Harper Conservatives' Efforts on the Sex Trade and Human Trafficking 91
10. Lost without Way-Finders? Disability, Gender, and Canadian Foreign and Development Policy 115
11. Case Studies
12. Gold ‘n’ Girls: Why Canada Weds Gender Equality with Mining Capitalism in Burkina Faso 141
13. Canada, Women, and artisanal Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 165
14. Discourse and Whole-of-Government: The Instrumentalization of Gender in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team 189
15. The Gendered Politics of Deceit in Egypt: The Instrumentalization of Women's Rights for an International Geostrategic Agenda 211
16. The Erasure of Gender in Canada–Haiti Cooperation? 237
17. Not High on Our Radar? The Harper Government and Missing and Murdered aboriginal Women in Canada 261
18. Looking Back and Moving Forward 283
19. Contributors 293
20. Index 297