This thesis explores the role of a women’s empowerment program in sanctioning and
reinforcing gendered discourses of neoliberalism and militarization. I apply a
governmentality lens to analyze how the program’s structure, implementation, and
omissions both reflect and reproduce neoliberal and militarized rationalities. Through
the narratives of those involved, I explore the processes by which these rationalities
came to exert themselves through the program, and how they were adapted and
resisted by participants.