International Conflict Feminism: Theory, Practice, Challenges. By Vasuki Nesiah. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025. 292p.

methodological centring of unaffiliated local women's testimonies, paired with the rigorous intersectional reading of IS's bureaucratic and ideological machinery.Subsequent engagement with feminist security studies and rebel governance literature provides an urgently needed model for analysing extremist proto-states through a gendered lens.The work's sophisticated deconstruction of the monolithic "woman in IS" category, reveals a complex, stratified system of governance where intersectional hierarchies determine women's access to rights, resources, and protection.This is particularly evident in the author's nuanced analysis of Sunni Muslim women's experiences.Vale's work represents a crucial contribution to understanding how intersectional hierarchies function within extremist governance systems, demonstrating that intersectionality is not merely useful but can be essential for analysing gendered dimensions of rebel control.