The chapter investigates gender as a central organizing principle in memory work and demonstrates how gender functions as a powerful narrative trope for the constitution of the post-war state. Gendered memory tropes of women as either sexualized bodies or grieving mothers are analyzed and it is argued that by paying attention to how women's experiences are memorialized as part of homogenizing national narratives, we can understand more deeply what roles for women are deemed acceptable, encouraged, or discouraged. The chapter demonstrates that the concept of vertical fragmentation is a useful analytical lens when rethinking memory politics as a site for gendered constitutions of power and helps to identify how gendered memory politics is increasingly (re)negotiated and challenged through contestations below and beyond the nation-state. Civil society activism as well as the arts are two realms that may contribute to a productive fragmentation of monolithic memory and the chapter argues that such contestations of homogenizing, gendered memory tropes open up for gender-just peace.