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How do women become gendered subjects during the militia experience? Especially those who had a strong investment in the Christian militias? To go beyond the debate on women’s emancipation during armed struggle and understand how this type of experience determines different ways of inhabiting gender norms, I examine the “organisational shaping” [façonnage organisationnel] and political subjectivation that take place during this kind of engagement. By analysing this phenomenon over the sixteen years of the Lebanese Civil War, I show that different modes of organisation of militias and their evolution induced differentiated trajectories of gendered subjectivation according to women’s various militia careers. I study both the leeway female militia members had in the definition of their militant practices and reinvention of models of femininity, and the role of the professionalisation of the militia in the reproduction of gender and sexuality norms.