ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the multiple faces of feminist violence specifically in the context of the international security machine, observing the contradictions and ironies of the various characterizations to encourage more understanding about the violence’s of feminism and the ensuing tense relationship with in/security, gender, women, and power. It traces some of the linkages between feminism and violence in both theory and action. The chapter offers empirical examples and comment on some of the reverberations of resistances in the women, peace, and security project to the work of violence within feminist theory, most notably in relation to the securing of women and feminism. To be secured, feminism has to disavow any connection to violence, including its own rowdy and unruly history of thought and action. Feminist violence must continuously be directed to the gendered binaries and boundaries contained within and around the tropes of the Beautiful Soul and Just Warrior – namely peace/war, non-violence/violence, insecure/secure.
