Gender in feminist foreign policy models implemented in 2014 to 2022

Abstract

The article presents a gender analysis of the feminist foreign policy models (FFP) adopted by Sweden, Canada, France, Mexico and Spain between 2014 and 2022. So far, the literature has been centered on investigating issues as security and ethics; values; cultures and national identities, but there has been little attention paid to the conceptualization of gender as a category of analysis. To explore this point, the present paper aims to compare the five FFP models through a feminist critical discourse analysis. The results indicate that gender is frequently used as a terminology analogous to sexuality, addressing notions of gender identity in a binary way. Among the main contributions, the idea of self-determination based on the markers of womanhood and/or femininity is proposed through transfeminist approaches.