The first extended legal studies analysis of the interplay between gender, conflict and international law, applying an intersectional, decolonial approach to gendered experiences of war. "He words me my women". The observation of Cleopatra on Ceasar coursed through my mind as I read this book. Joy and despair! Joy at the clarity of the analysis and the accessible, compelling narrative -(you don't need a legal back ground to enjoy this!) despair at the extent to which we have, indeed, been 'worded'. The authors beautifully pull back their feminist lens providing a fuller picture to emerge, one which exposes how; the language of our WPS resolutions has been subverted of meaning when it comes to practice, how perhaps our focus or even 'distraction', on WPS has enabled exponential international violence to become legitimized, how gender is, perhaps, the determinative issue in law, war and peace and how there is an absolute imperative to expose at all times the duplicity that flows from the patriarchal assumptions which regulate them. This book shows that we know what they do and like Cleopatra we 'will not be conquered'.