Sara Bertotti is a Doctoral Researcher and Teaching Fellow at the School of Law, SOAS University of London, UK.Gina Heathcote is a Reader in Gender Studies and International Law, at the Centre for Gender Studies and the School of Law, SOAS University of London, UK.Emily Jones is a Lecturer in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK.Sheri Labenski is a Research Officer in the Centre for Women, Peace, and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where she works on an ERC-funded project Gendered Peace.

This powerful, ground-breaking analysis explores how gendered, raced and heteronormative ways of thinking underpin the international laws that purport to regulate and even humanize armed conflict and bring peace. The authors show how feminist efforts to change this script have been co-opted to expand legal justifications for using military force because it will protect or rescue women. In consequence, long-standing feminist prescriptions for peace, including general disarmament, demilitarisation and redistributive economics, are marginalised and the many quotidian violences left unattended.

• Author Biographies Table of CasesList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter One – Collective SecurityChapter Two – Unilateral ForceChapter Three – Countering TerrorismChapter Four – International Humanitarian Law of Armed ConflictChapter Five - International Criminal Law