the gendered divisions of violence and put them in relation to the negative impacts of the gendered divisions of labor and resources that we cover in Chapter 5 in order to appreciate the varied struggles against these interrelated processes that we document in Chapter 6. To review, what we mean by the gendered divisions of violence are the hierarchical aggressive passive dichotomies of self-other, them, soldier victim, and protector-protected that divide the world into masculinized offenders and defenders and feminized populations over which they fight and seek to conquer or defend(see Table 4.1). This has long been the main story of IR, although only recently has this been understood in gender terms within IR. Moreover, although IR was founded ostensibly