Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Analyzing Canada's feminist foreign policy: A Qualitative Content Analysis on Canada's feminist foreign policy examined through the lenses of feminist theory
University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics.
2020 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This research examines how 'feminist' Canada's new feminist foreign policy is by assessing how the foreign policy reflects aspects of feminist theory and thought. The research contains deductive elements and used liberal and radical feminism as theoretical tools for the analysis of the chosen foreign policy document. To conduct the analysis, three different categories based on feminist theory were constructed to capture the main differences between liberal feminism and radical feminism. The three different categories were: the political and the private; cause of inequality; and goals to achieve gender equality. After analyzing the extent to which elements of liberal and radical principles were reflected in the foreign policy, it emerged that there were some variations between the three different categories. The first category mostly reflected aspects of radical feminist thinking, whereas the other two categories mostly mirrored the main principles of liberal feminism. The overall picture gathered from the analysis showed that Canada's new feminist foreign policy was mainly related to a liberal feminist perspective.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 32
Keywords [en]
Canada, content analysis, feminist foreign policy, feminist theory, liberal feminism, radical feminism
National Category
Political Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-15886Local ID: EIS501OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-15886DiVA, id: diva2:1470871
Subject / course
Political science
Educational program
International Programme in Politics and Economics
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2020-10-16 Created: 2020-09-26 Last updated: 2021-07-20Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

By organisation
Divison of Law, Economics, Statistics and Politics
Political Science

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 636 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf