the enormous stress that traditional gender roles, especially masculine ones, were under when the genocide erupted;
-the prominence of women in perpetrating the genocide (a historically unpre- cedented feature, in terms of the scale and directness of the involvement); the bluntness of the ge ́nocidaires’ appeals to gendered expectations and aspirations, again including women as active agents of the slaughter;
-the complex evolution of the genocide—from a tradition-bound gendercide targeting predominantly adult and adolescent males, as well as young and even infant boys (with many horri