ABSTRACT
This chapter examines gender in relation to the crime of genocide, specifically gender as it relates to the legal discourse on genocide. I am interested in how gender, as well as sex and sexuality, enter the international law on this particular form of mass exterminatory violence. In this relation, gender hinges on sexual violence, primarily against women, although at least one commentator has deployed a gender analysis or ‘lens’ to describe the primary targeting of men during genocide.2
