“With all the respect due to their sex”: gender and international humanitarian law

Helen M. Kinsella

Chapter 23 in Handbook on Gender in World Politics, 2026, pp 145-150 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: International humanitarian law is a historical artifact of specific forms of war and particular hierarchies of social order and relationships. Its formal articulation and subsequent interpretations reflect the potentially competing expectations and interpretations of what or whom the law is intended to protect, what it is intended to accomplish, and in whose service. Notably, it is only feminist scholars who have called attention to and documented how sex and sex differences have been constituted by and used to organize relations of power within the law itself. This chapter explicates those debates and the subsequent impact of the formulation of gender and sex accomplished through international humanitarian law.

Keywords: Gender; International Humanitarian Law; Conflict; International Law; Sex; Power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781803923765
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