Canada's New Feminist International Assistance Policy: Business as Usual? (original) (raw)

This paper asks to what extent does Canada’s New Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) represent a more transformational and intersectional approach to gender equality and neo-liberal international development? In other words, what is “new” about Canada’s international development policy when it comes to gender equality and women’s empowerment? Through a critical examination of the discourses of economic development in the FIAP on poverty, trade, market citizenship, and the private sector, I argue that the FIAP embodies both neoliberal feminism as well as feminist neoliberalism, which limit the transformational potential and impact of the FIAP on gender and international development strategies.