 For example, in her article "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals" Signs (1988), Carol Cohn claimed that a highly masculinized culture within the defence establishment contributed to the divorcing of war from human emotion.Feminist IR emerged largely from the late 1980s onwards.The end of the Cold War and the re-evaluation of traditional IR theory during the 1990s opened up a space for gendering International Relations.