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. It offers an overwhelmingly negative picture of the gendered effects of violence pursued in the name of security. "Gender violence" typically refers to acts of domestic and sexual violence directed at maintaining gender hierarchies and punishing femininities. Gender violence also can refer to violence visited upon gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered peoples targeted for their sexuality. To resist Empire is to disrupt the gendered division of violence, not by claiming equality to do imperial violence but rather by challenging the power of gender to valorize it. The desire for absolute security is the product of hardened masculinist identities that imagine themselves and the world as a series of armed camps set up to preserve their respective autonomies.
