ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how gendered divisions of violence and the power of gender that produces them construct and reproduce massive insecurities, or the crisis of insecurity. The power of gender obscures and militates against the potential alliances between diverse women and men and among them across borders to resist war and other forms of violence. In Women Warriors: A History, David Jones provides an account "of the female martial tradition in a pan-historical and global perspective". The work of men as life-takers thus creates perpetual work for women as life-givers. Liberalism in political theory favored divisions of power into public–private, government–household, whereas capitalism in economic theory favored divisions of labor into paid–unpaid, productive–reproductive. More critical world politics perspectives see militaries serving other less laudable functions, such as protecting repressive state elites from rebellion by their own people. Finally, there is no international jurisdiction for gender violence perpetrated against a soldier's own comrades-in-arms.
